Ling 535: Morphology                     Spring 04                                            Jan. 15, 2004

 

Professor: Heidi Harley

hharley@email.arizona.edu

Douglass 503

626-3554

Meetings: by appointment

Course homepage (This syllabus, some readings, READINGS QUESTIONS): http://linguistics.arizona.edu/~hharley/535/

(you can also get there from my home page).

 

Evaluation:

 

This is going to be a reading-intensive course. Consequently, there will be no problem-set-style homework assignments; rather, evaluation during the course will be on (very brief) reading-related questions which will be due every class, for the reading that will be discussed that class. The questions will mainly be designed to ensure that you do the readings in a timely manner, that is, before the class.

 

There will also be a short paper (between 5-10 pages) on any morphologically-relevant topic you wish, due in draft form in the second week of April, and in final form on the last day of class.

 

The readings for next Tuesday (Jan. 20th) will be available on the class web site; the entire coursepack is currently at the copy center and will hopefully be available for your to purchase by Monday of next week.

 

70%: Answers to brief readings questions

10%: Final paper: 1st draft (Due April 8)

20%: Final paper: final draft (Due May 4)

 

Schedule of classes and readings:

 

Jan. 15th (Today): Syllabus, ÒWhat is a word?Ó

 

Tues. Jan. 20th:

Harley, H. and R. Noyer, 1999. ÒDistributed MorphologyÓ, Glot 4.4, 3-9.

 

Thurs. Jan. 22

Marantz, A. 1997. ÒNo Escape from Syntax: DonÕt try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon.Ó In A. Dimitriadis, ed., Proceedings of the 1998 Penn Linguistics Colloquium, UPenn Dept. of Linguistics: PennWPL.

(Optional: Marantz, A. 1999. Introductory remarks: notes from morphology class.)

 

Tues. Jan 27

Halle, M. and A. Marantz. 1994. ÒDistributed morphology and the pieces of inflection,Ó in K. Hale and S. J. Keyser, eds, The view from Building 20, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 113- 174.

 

Thurs. Jan 29.

More Halle and Marantz

 

Tues. Feb. 3.

Sauerland, U. 1996. ÒThe late insertion of Germanic inflection,Ó Ms., MIT.

 

Thurs. Feb 5.

Bobaljik, J. 1994. ÒWhat does Adjacency do?Ó In H. Harley and C. Phillips, eds, The Morphology-Syntax Connection, MITWPL 22, pp. 1-32.

 

Tues. Feb. 10th

Halle, M. 2000. ÒDistributed Morphology: Impoverishment and fission.Ó in J. Lecarme, J. Lowenstein, U. Shlonsky, eds. Research in Afroasiatic Grammar: Papers from the Third Conference on Afroasiatic Languages, Sophia Antipolis France, 1996. John Benjamins Publishing Co. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, pp. 125-151

 

Thurs. Feb. 12th

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

 

Tues. Feb. 17th

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

 

Thurs. Feb. 19th.

Harley, H. 1995. ÒL-syntax: deriving the lexicon.Ó Section 3.2 of Subjects, Events and Licensing, PhD. dissertation, MIT.

 

Tues. Feb. 24th

Hagstrom, P. 1996. ÒDo-support in Korean: Evidence for an Interpretive Morphology.Ó in Proceedings of SICOGG.

 

Thurs, Feb. 26th

Harley, H. and R. Noyer. 2000. ÒFormal vs. encyclopedic properties of vocabulary: Evidence from Nominalizations.Ó In B. Peeters, ed., The Lexicon-Encyclopedia Interface, Elsevier Press.

 

Tues, March 2

Pfau, R. 2000. ÒSpeech errors and Distributed Morphology.Ó Chapter 4 of dissertation.

Part 1: 4.0-4.2, pp. 101-128

 

Thurs, March 4

More Pfau, 4.2-4.4  pp. 128-170

 

Tues, March 9

More Pfau 171-233

 

Thurs, March 11

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.

 

Tues March 23

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

 

Tues March 14, Thurs March 16: SPRING BREAK

 

Thurs March 25

Rice, K. Chapts 1, 2 of Morpheme order and semantic scope: Word formation in the Athapaskan verb. Cambridge: CUP.

 

Tues March 30

Rice, K. Chapt. 7-8

 

Thurs April 1

Rice Chapts 9-10

 

Tues April 6

Johns, A. 2002. Restricting Noun Incorporation. Ms, U. Toronto.

 

Thurs April 8 FIRST DRAFT OF PAPER DUE

Tues April 13

Thurs April 15

Tues April 20

Thurs April 22

Tues April 27

Thurs April 29

Tues May 4: Last Day! FINAL DRAFT OF PAPER DUE