Linguistics 105	Morphology				Spring 2021

Instructor:	Jorge Hankamer
TA:		Stephanie Rich

MWF 9:20-10:25

Course website:	http://babel.ucsc.edu/~hank/105.html

Office Hours and email:

	Jorge Hankamer		T 11-12, W 12-1	hank@ucsc.edu

	Stephanie Rich		TH ??-??	skrich@ucsc.edu

Sections:

	T 1:30-2:35	Jorge Hankamer
	T 5:20-6:25	Stephanie Rich

This is an introduction to Morphology; prerequisites are Syntax I or
Syntactic Structures, and Phonology I.  The goal of the course will be
to introduce students to a range of phenomena, issues, and concepts in
morphology, to establish the basics of morphological analysis, and to
develop a theory of morphological structure in the context of generative
grammar.

Work for the course:

There will be a problem assigned every week, usually also an exercise,
and some reading.  The problems will be more substantial, but both
problems and exercises  will usually require
some careful thought and effort, and as usual collaboration on addressing
these problems is encouraged.  Just be sure to write your results up
independently.

There won't be any midterm or final exams, but along the way one or more
exercises may be "Write a squib".  The final assignment will be to write
a Morphology problem.  This is to see if you got the point.

Grades:

The final grade will be based on an average of scores on the exercises and
homework problems, which will be scored on a scale of 0-5 or 0-10 based on
neatness, clarity, care, and thoroughness, with extra points for brilliance.
The final assignment will count double.

TOPICS, WEEK BY WEEK (each week has a major assignment, and sometimes an exercise)

week
1	Esperanto	Derivation, Case, Morphotactics, Morphological Analysis

2	Turkish		Allomorphy and ALLOMORPHY; more morphological analysis

3	Turkish		Agglutination; morphology can sometimes very directly
			reflect teh syntax

4	Swahili		Noun-class plural, concord systems

5	Chamorro	(Split) Ergativity; morphology sensitive to transitivity;
			Aspect, agreement

6	German		Expression of Case, Number, Gender dependent on syntactic
			environment; concord; syncretism

7	Spanish		Clitics: move, attach, and congregate

8	Tzotzil		Ergativity, ergative used as pssessive marker; kin terms

9	Distributed Morphology

10	Summary and a look forward: Danish Definiteness Allomorphy