Morphology 535

Fall 2006

When: Mondays 3-5:30 pm

Where: Modern Languages 214

Contact Me:

Heidi Harley

Comm 114b

626-3554

hharley@email.arizona.edu

Office Hours: Just email me to plan a time anytime you want to meet

Course Requirements:

20%: Answers to Official Questions

(usually one comprehension-type question per week based on that week's readings and/or class discussion)

20%: Short paper (5-7 pages) either:

a) summarizing a morphological paper not on the reading list

or

b) briefly analyzing some phenomenon from a language or phenomenon not discussed in the course

10%: Topic statement (1-2 pages) for the long paper, due at the end of class

50%: Long paper (10-20 pages) either:

a) surveying a morphological phenomenon across three or more languages

b) providing an in-depth description and analysis of some morphological phenomenon in some language

Readings by date:

(Of course, we will certainly diverge from this schedule if time or interests dictate! I've certainly got too much here. But better to be too ambitious than not ambitious enough, right?)

Aug 21: Syllabus (this), Intro thinking, Morphological practice with Limbu

Guest professor: Andrew Carnie

Aug. 28: Framework introduction: Distributed Morphology

Guest professor: Jason Haugen

Harley, H. and Noyer, R. 1999. Distributed morphology. Glot International, 4, 4: 3-9. http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~hharley/PDFs/HarleyNoyerDM1999.pdf

Embick, David & Rolf Noyer (2004): "Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface." To appear in: G. Ramchand & C. Reiss (eds.): The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces. Oxford: University Press. [cf.http://www.ling.upenn.edu/embick/ab.html]

Sept. 4: No classesÑLabor day

Part I: INFLECTION

Sept. 11: Framework development:

HALLE, Morris & Alec MARANTZ (1993) Distributed Morphology and the Pieces of Inflection. In: The View from Building 20, ed. Kenneth Hale and S.Jay Keyser. MIT Press, Cambridge, 111-176.

Pfau, R. 2000. ÒSpeech errors and Distributed Morphology.Ó Chapters 1, 2 and (mostly) 4 of dissertation.

Sept. 18: Syncretism:

Williams, E. 1994. ÒRemarks on lexical knowledge,Ó Lingua 92, pp. 7-34.

Bobaljik, J. 2002. ÒSyncretism without paradigms.Ó Ms., McGill. To appear in Yearbook of morphology

(Stump)

Sept. 25: Syncretism, cont

Frampton, J. 2002. Syncretism, impoverishment and the structure of person features. In Papers from the CLS Annual Meeting, 2002.

Harley, H. 2005. Underspecification, Impoverishment and Meta-paradigms: Accounting for syncretism. To appear in Adger, Harbour and Bejar, eds,É, OUP.

Oct. 2: Feature organization, universals

Harley & Ritter (2002) Person and number in pronouns: a feature-geometric analysis. Language 78:482-526

McGinnis, M. 2006. On markedness asymmetries in person and number. Language 81.3, 699-718

Oct. 9: Markedness, features and the interface with syntax

Cowper, E. 2006. A Note on Number. Linguistic Inquiry. vol. 36: 441-455

Nevins, A. 2006. "Dual is still more marked than plural."

Bejar, Susana. 2000. "Locality, Cyclicity and Markedness of Georgian Verbal Morphology.

Part II: DERIVATION

Oct. 16: Morphosyntax: Morpheme Order, Bipartite Verbs

Baker,M., The Mirror Principle and Morphosyntactic Explanation, in Linguistic Inquiry, Volume 16, Number 3, Summer 1985.

Harley, H. On the causative construction. To appear in S. Miyagawa and M. Saito, eds, Handbook of Japanese Linguistics, OUP.

Oct. 23: Bipartite Verbs

Travis, Lisa. 2000. Event structure in syntax. In Events as Grammatical Objects: The Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics and Syntax, edited by Carol Tenny and James Pustejovsky, pp. 145-185. CSLI, Stanford

Davis, H. and H. Demirdache 2000. On Lexical Verb Meanings: Evidence from Salish. In J. Pustejovsky and C. Tenny (eds.), Events as Grammatical Objects: the Converging Perspectives of Lexical Semantics and Syntax. CSLI: Stanford University Press, 97-142.

Oct. 30: Guest Lecture (Harley at NSF Panel meeting)

Nov. 6: Bipartite verbs

More bipartite verb structure cross-linguistically

Folli, Raffaella, Heidi Harley and Simin Karimi. 2005. Determinants of event type in Persian Complex Predicates. Lingua 115:1365-1401.

Johns, Alana. 2005. Restricting Noun Incorporation: Root movement. Ms., University of Toronto. http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~ajohns/JohnsNI05.pdf

Nov. 13: Bipartite Verbs

Luis M. Barragan. 2003 Movement and Allomorphy in the Cupeno Verb Construction. MITELF 5.

Hale, Ken. 2004. On the significance of Eloise JelinekÕs Pronominal Argument Hypothesis. In Formal approaches to function in grammar, ed. by A. Carnie, H. Harley and M. Willie. John Benjamins. 11-43.

Rice, Keren. 2000. Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb. Cambridge University Press.

Nov. 20: Hi-Lo Attachment analyses

Alexiadou, A. and E. Anagnostopoulou. 2005. On the syntax and morphology of Greek participles. Talk presented at the Workshop on the Morphosyntax of Modern Greek, LSA Institute, July 2005.

Jackson, Eric. 2005c. Derived statives in Pima. Paper presented at the SSILA Annual Meeting, 7 January 2005.
http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/grads/ejackson/SSILA05PimaDerivedStatives.pdf

Embick, David (2003) Locality, Listedness, and Morphological Identity. Studia Linguistica 57 (3), 143-169.

Part III: PLAYING NICELY WITH OTHERS

Nov. 27: Psychological Reality and Psycholinguistic Evidence

Meyers, James. "Compounding and psycholinguistics"

Ullman, M. 1999. ÒAcceptability ratings of regular and irregular past-tense forms: Evidence for a dual-system model of language from word frequency and phonological neighborhood effects.Ó Language and Cognitive Processes 14(1), 47-67.

Embick, D. and A. Marantz. 2000. ÒCognitive neuroscience and the English past tense: Comments on the paper by Ullman et al.Ó Ms, MIT.

Longtin, C.-M., J. Segui and P.A. HallŽ, 2000. ÒMorphological priming without morphological relationship,Ó Language and Cognitive Processes 18(3), 313-334.

Dec. 4: Other Frameworks

Raphael Finkel, Lei Shen, Greg Stump and Suresh Thesayi 'KATR: A Set-Based Extension of DATR', (pdf)

Corbett, Greville G. and Norman M. Fraser (1993) Network morphology: A DATR account of Russian nominal inflection. Journal of Linguistics 29: 113-42

Anderson, Stephen R. (1999). "An A-Morphous Account of Tagalog Second Position Clitics." to appear in The Nature of the Word (S. Inkelas and K Hanson, eds.), MIT Press.

Sadock, J. "Some Pleasures and Pitfalls of Autolexical Syntax", in Schiller, Steinberg, and Need, eds., Autolexical Theory: Ideas and Methods, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, 189-206