Schedule of topics

Morphology · Spring 2008

Highlighted items are future plans that may be subject to adjustment.

Monday
Wednesday
Friday
  Jan 9     [unit 1]
Intro to course
Basic morph terminology 		Jan 11
Morphological segmentation
Nida's principles
Jan 14
Nida's principles, cont.
Ways of modeling morphology 		Jan 16
What is a word?
Grammatical/phonological wd 		Jan 18
Morphological typology
Productivity, lexicalization
Jan 21
No class -- Holiday
  		Jan 23
Inflection
  		Jan 25
Data day (Jen)
 
Jan 28
Derivation
  		Jan 30
Clitics
  		Feb 1     [unit 2]
The Mirror Principle:
Empirical evidence
Feb 4
The Mirror Principle:
Theoretical implications 		Feb 6
Template morphology:
Empirical evidence 		Feb 8
Data day (Tarah, Kate)
 
Feb 11
Template morphology:
Phonological evidence 		Feb 13
Distributed Morphology:
Introduction 		Feb 15
Data day (Chris, Scott)
 
Feb 18
Distributed Morphology
  		Feb 20
Distributed Morphology
  		Feb 22
Data day (Inma)
 
Feb 25
DM: Application, critique
  		Feb 27
DM: Discussion and questions
  		Feb 29
Data day (Sarah, Noah)
 
Mar 3
DM: L-morphemes
  		Mar 5
DM: L-morphemes
  		Mar 7
Data day (Benton)
Suppletion in DM
Mar 10
No class -- Spring Break
  		Mar 12
No class -- Spring Break
  		Mar 14
No class -- Spring Break
 
Mar 17     [unit 3]
Lexical Phonology
Initial paper topic due
Midterm handed out 		Mar 19
Lexical Phonology
Prosodic Morphology 		Mar 21
No class -- Holiday
 
Mar 24
Prosodic Morphology
Midterm due at start of class 		Mar 26
DM and
morphology/phonology 		Mar 28
Taking stock
Paper proposal due
Mar 31
"Words and rules" for inflection
  		Apr 2
Psycholinguistic evidence and
the structure of the lexicon 		Apr 4
Psycholinguistic evidence and
the structure of the lexicon
Apr 7
Dual mechanism models
and English regular inflection 		Apr 9
Dual mechanism models
and German derivation 		Apr 11
Dual mechanism models
and German derivation
Apr 14
Some cross-linguistic
psycholinguistic evidence 		Apr 16
L1 acquisition of morphology
  		Apr 18
L1 acquisition of morphology
 
Apr 21
Presentations
  		Apr 23
Presentations
  		Apr 25
Presentations
 

*** FINAL PAPERS are due by the end of our exam period ***
F May 2, 11:00am