MORPHOLOGY
Spring 2001 Monday 2:10-5:00 ¤å¾Ç°|413


OTHER WEB RESOURCES

Instructor:

James Myers (³Á³Ç)
Office: ¤å¾Ç°|247
Tel: 31506
Email: lngmyers@ccunix.ccu.edu.tw
WWW: http://www.ccunix.ccu.edu.tw/~lngmyers
Office hours: Thur. 10-12, or by appointment.

Goals:

This class is designed to help you analyze morphological data, understand current and classic theories of morphology, and connect morphology with other branches of linguistics (including phonology, syntax, and semantics). No previous experience with advanced linguistic theory is assumed.

Readings:

Katamba, Francis (1993) Morphology. MacMillan Press Ltd: London.

Additional weekly readings (included in the list at the end of this syllabus).

Evaluation: 
	60%	Homework (problem sets or questions on readings)
	40%	Term paper (due 6/11)

Homework will be of two kinds. Sometimes you'll have to analyze some morphological data. Other times you'll get questions concerning the week's reading. Homework won't be due every week.

The term paper (about 10 pages) will describe an analysis of morphological data from a language OTHER than Mandarin or English. Data can thus come from native speakers (including yourself) of languages like Taiwanese or Hakka, or from grammar books or native speakers of other languages (e.g. Japanese, German, Russian, Tsou, Navajo). The analysis must be your own, and not taken from any other source. The term paper is due on June 11 (one week after the last class). The paper must be written in English. When I grade, I will only pay attention to organization/logic and the connection to the theoretical issues discussed in class (not your English).


Schedule
"*" before a reading marks when homework is due.

DATE TOPICS READINGS
2/19 Introduction to morphology Katamba 1
2/26 Words and morphemes Katamba 2;
Packard, chap. 2
*3/5 Types of morphemes Katamba 3

3/12 Productivity Katamba 4

3/19 Idioms and compounds Katamba 12
*3/26 Overview of Chinese morphology Packard, chap. 3
4/2 NO CLASS: Spring break
4/9 Introduction to Lexical Morphology Katamba 5
*4/16 Lexical Morphology: pros and cons Katamba 6, 7
4/23 Prodosic morphology Katamba 8, 9
*4/30 Prosodic morphology in Formosan languages Chang (1997)
5/7 Inflection: Basics, and verbs Katamba 10.1-3
*5/14 Inflection: Nouns and clitics Katamba 10.4-5;
Li (1999)
5/21 Morphosyntax Katamba 11
*5/28 Morphosyntax in Formosan languages Chang (2001)
6/4 Class summary
6/11 *** TERM PAPER DUE ***


ADDITIONAL READINGS
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Chang, M. Laura (1997)  "Thao reduplication."  Papers for the Eighth 
	International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, 273-297.
Chang, Yung-Li. (2001)  "Verbal agreement in Seediq and Kavalan and its
	implications."  National Chung Cheng University ms.  Submitted.
Li, Yen-Hui Audrey (1999)  "Plurality in a classifier language."  Journal
	of East Asian Linguistics 8:75-99.
Packard, Jerome L. (2000)  The Morphology of Chinese:  A Linguistic and
	Cognitive Approach.  Cambridge.

SOME OTHER MORPHOLOGY TEXTBOOKS

Anderson, Stephen R. (1992)  A-Morphous Morphology.  Cambridge 
	University Press.
Aronoff, Mark (1976)  Word Formation in Generative Grammar.  MIT 
	Press.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew (1992)  Current Morphology.  Routledge.
Jensen, John T. (1990)  Morphology: Word Structure in Generative 
	Grammar.  John Benjamins: Amsterdam.
Matthews, P. H. (1991)  Morphology.  Cambridge University Press.
Spencer, Andrew (1991)  Morphological Theory.  Blackwell.
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