60% Homework (problem sets or questions on readings) 40% Term paper (due 1/16)
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 1/16 (one week after the last class); you should choose a paper topic by 12/12 (about one month earlier). The paper must be written in English. When I grade, I will only pay attention to your use of data, organization/logic, and the connection to the theoretical issues discussed in class (not your English).
Week Topics Readings 9/19 Introduction to morphology Katamba, ch. 1 9/26 Words and morphemes Katamaba, ch. 2; Packard, ch. 2 10/3 Types of morphemes Katamba, ch. 3 10/10 No class (
雙十節
) 10/17 Productivity Katamba, ch. 4 10/24 Idioms and compounds Katamba, ch. 12 10/31 Overview of Chinese morphology Packard, chap. 3 11/7 The theory of Lexical Morphology Katamba, ch. 5, 6, 7 11/14 Word-based theories of morphology Haspelmath, ch. 9 11/21 Prosodic morphology Katamba, ch. 8, 9 11/28 Prosodic morphology in Formosan languages M. L. Chang (1998) 12/5 Inflection: Basics, and verbs Katamba, ch. 10.1-3 12/12 Inflection: Nouns and clitics Katamba, ch. 10.4-5 12/19 Morphosyntax Katamba, ch. 11 12/26 Morphosyntax in Formosan languages Y-L. Chang (2002) 1/2 Morphological processing Rice, Libben, & Derwing 1/9 Class summary 1/16 *** TERM PAPER DUE ***
Paper topic due
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