Linguistics 105: Morphology

Winter Quarter 2012

TTh 10-11:45, Stevenson 150

This course is an introduction to morphology in the framework of generative grammar. The work for the course consists of weekly homework problems and exercises, and a final project. The problems and exercises exercise observation and analysis of linguistic data and the construction and testing of theories about morphology and its relation to other components of the grammar.

Instructor: Jorge Hankamer

SYLLABUS

Exercise 1

Assignment 2: Esperanto

16 Rules of Esperanto

16 Rules of Esperanto (Annotated)

Exercise 3

Assignment 3: Turkish

Exercise 4

Assignment 4: More Turkish

Help with Turkish 4.5

Exercise 5

Assignment 5: Bulgarian Definiteness

Exercise 6

Read pp 580-584 of Embick & Noyer 2001

Hankamer & Mikkelsen 2005: When Movement Must be Blocked

Assignment 6: Estonian nominal morphology

Exercise 7

Harley & Noyer 1999: Distributed Morphology

Assignment 7: Spanish pronominal clitics

Exercise 8

Aissen & Perlmutter: Clause Reduction in Spanish

Assignment 8

Tzotzil Notes

Halle & Marantz 1994

Final Assignment