E-372/L-391: Morphology
Peter
Svenonius and Øystein Nilsen
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
In this course the morphological structure of English
will be examined in relation to phonology, syntax, and semantics. Other languages
will also be discussed in a comparative context.
Important issues include: What is the place of morphology in relation to other components of grammar (syntax, lexicon, phonology, semantics)? How much information does morphology provide about syntax? How are complex words formed or stored?
Theories to be investigated include Lexical Phonology, Distributed Morphology, and others.
Schedule:
09.15 - 11.00 10.15 - 11.00 11.15 - 12.00 12.15 - 13.00 E-372/L-391: Morphology. Room 01, Nedre Lysthus E-372/L-391: Morphology. Room 01, Nedre Lysthus E-372/L-391: Morphology. Room 01, Nedre Lysthus 13.15 - 14.00 14.15 - 15.00 15.15 - 16.00
Course outline:
I. Lexical Phonology
Wasow (1977), Chomsky and Halle (1968), Siegel (1974), Aronoff (1976). Kiparsky (1982)
II. Phases at the word level
Halle and Marantz (1993), Marantz (1997a), Marantz (1997b), McCarthy (1981), Arad (2001), Marantz (2001)
III. Semantics
van Hout and Roeper (1998), Rice (2000), Borer (2001)
IV. Categories and argument structure
Kiparsky (1982), Pesetsky (1995), Borer (2000), Hale and Keyser (1993), Hale and Keyser (2000)
References
Arad, Maya. 2001. The stuff roots are made of: Verbal patterns and the form of Hebrew roots. Ms., University of Geneva & Stanford University. GLOW talk presented in Braga, Portugal.
Aronoff, Mark. 1976. Word Formation in Generative Grammar. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.
Borer, Hagit. 2000. Exo-skeletal vs. endo-skeletal explanations: Syntactic projections and the lexicon. Ms., USC. Los Angeles.
Borer, Hagit. 2001. The grammar machine. In Unaccusativity, eds. Artemis Alexiadou and Martin Everaert, to appear. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chomsky, Noam, and Halle, Morris. 1968. The Sound Pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row.
Hale, Ken, and Keyser, Jay. 2000. On the time of Merge. Ms., MIT. Cambridge, Ma.
Hale, Kenneth, and Keyser, Samuel Jay. 1993. On argument structure and the lexical expression of syntactic relations. In The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger, eds. Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser, 53-109. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.
Halle, Morris, and Marantz, Alec. 1993. Distributed Morphology and the pieces of inflection. In The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger, eds. Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser, 111-176. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kiparsky, Paul. 1982. Lexical morphology and phonology. In Linguistics in the Morning Calm, ed. The Linguistic Society of Korea, 1-91. Seoul: Hanshin.
Marantz, Alec. 1997a. No escape from syntax: Don’t try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Penn Linguistics Colloquium, eds. A. Dimitriadis and L. Siegel, 201-225. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania.
Marantz, Alec. 1997b. ‘Cat’ as a phrasal idiom: Consequences of late insertion in Distributed Morphology. Ms., MIT. Cambridge, Ma.
Marantz, Alec. 2001. Words. Ms., MIT. Cambridge, Ma.
McCarthy, John J. 1981. A prosodic theory of nonconcatenative morphology. Linguistic Inquiry 12:373-418.
Pesetsky, David. 1995. Zero Syntax: Experiencers and Cascades. Cambridge, Ma.: MIT Press.
Rice, Keren. 2000. Morpheme Order and Semantic Scope: Word Formation in the Athapaskan Verb. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Siegel, Dorothy. 1974. Topics in English Morphology. PhD dissertation, MIT.
van Hout, Angeliek, and Roeper, Thomas. 1998. Events and aspectual structure in derivational morphology. In Papers from the UPenn/MIT Roundtable on Argument Structure and Aspect, ed. Heidi Harley, 175-200. Cambridge, Ma.: MITWPL.
Wasow, Thomas. 1977. Transformations and the lexicon. In Formal Syntax, eds. Peter Culicover, Thomas Wasow and Joan Bresnan, 327-360. New York: Academic Press.