This is a list of the course readings in chronological order. The page will be updated as additional readings are assigned.
- For specific due dates, reading-guide handouts, and assignment information, see the daily syllabus.
- For more about morphology, see the list of supplementary readings.
Unit 1: Introduction to morphological concepts and terminology
- Nida, Eugene A. 1949. Chapter 2, The identification of morphemes. In Morphology: The Descriptive Analysis of Words, 2ed. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. (optional reading) [Blackboard]
- Dixon, R.M.W., and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald. 2002. Word: A typological framework. In R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-41. [Blackboard]
- Katamba, Francis, and John Stonham. 2006. Section 3.7 of Chapter 3, Types of morphemes. In Morphology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 42-66 (this excerpt, 58-63). [Blackboard]
- Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2007. Sections 7-10 of Chapter 1, Typological distinctions in word formation. In Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description, vol III: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon, 2ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-65 (this excerpt: 49-64). [Blackboard]
- Stump, Gregory T. 1998. Inflection. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 13-43. [Blackboard]
- Beard, Robert. 1998. Derivation. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 44-65. [Blackboard]
- Halpern, Aaron L. 1998. Clitics. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 102-122. [Blackboard]
Unit 2: Theoretical approaches to the place of morphology in mental grammar
- Baker, Mark. 1985. The Mirror Principle and morphosyntactic explanation. Linguistic Inquiry 16: 373-415. [Blackboard]
- Hyman, Larry. 2003 [sic]. Suffix ordering in Bantu: A morphocentric approach. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2002, vol. 3. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 245-281. [Direct online access through UNC] [Blackboard]
- Harley, Heidi, and Rolf Noyer. 1999. State-of-the-article: Distributed Morphology. GLOT International 4: 3-9. [Blackboard]
- Halle, Morris, and Alec Marantz. 1993. Distributed Morphology and the pieces of inflection. In Kenneth Hale and Samuel Jay Keyser (eds.), The View from Building 20: Essays in Linguistics in Honor of Sylvain Bromberger. Cambridge: MIT Press, 111-176. [Blackboard]
- Harley, Heidi, and Rolf Noyer. 1998. Licensing in the non-lexicalist lexicon: Nominalizations, Vocabulary Items, and the Encyclopaedia. In Heidi Harley and Rolf Noyer (eds.), Papers from the MIT/UPenn Roundtable on Argument Structure and Aspect (MITWPL 32). Cambridge, MA: MIT Linguistics, 119-137. [Blackboard]
Unit 3: Highlights of the morphology-phonology interface
- For more on Lexical Phonology/cyclic phonology, see the references on the list of supplementary readings
- McCarthy, John J., and Alan S. Prince. 1998. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 283-305. (optional reading) [Blackboard]
Unit 4: External evidence for morphological structure and organization
- Pinker, Steven. 1998. Words and rules. Lingua 106: 219-242. [Direct online access through UNC] [Blackboard]
- McQueen, James M., and Anne Cutler. 1998. Morphology and word recognition. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 406-427. [Blackboard]
- Gordon, Peter, and Maria Alegre. 1999. Is there a dual system for regular inflections? Brain and Language 68: 212-217. [Direct online access through UNC] [Blackboard]
- Clahsen, Harald, Ingrid Sonnenstuhl, and James P. Blevins. 2003. Derivational morphology in the German mental lexicon: A Dual Mechanism account. In Harald R. Baayen and Robert Schreuder (eds.), Morphological Structure in Language Processing. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 125-155. [Available online]
- Waksler, Rachelle. 1999. Cross-linguistic evidence for morphological representation in the mental lexicon. Brain and Language 68: 68-74. [Direct online access through UNC] [Blackboard]
- Clark, Eve V. 1998. Morphology in language acquisition. In Andrew Spencer and Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.), The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell, 374-389. [Blackboard]
- Maratsos, Michael. 2000. More overregularizations after all: new data and discussion on Marcus, Pinker, Ullman, Hollander, Rosen & Xu. Journal of Child Language 27(1): 183-212. (optional reading) [Direct online access through UNC]