Course Outline: Ling 420, Morphology

Spring 2000

Instructor: Byron W. Bender, Moore 578, phone 956-8374, fax 956-9166, bender@hawaii.edu; office hours, mwf 10:30-11:00, mwf 2:00–3:00, and by appointment.

Two books are required: A Student’s Latin Grammar (SLG), Cambridge 1992, and Morphology, 2^d ed., by P. H. Matthews, Cambridge U. Press, 1991. Course grade will be based equally on class participation, a midterm, and the final examination. Class participation includes satisfactory and timely completion of written assignments. Sentences from SLG are to be translated and glossed word-by-word with morphosyntactic features indicated; also, the point being exemplified by the sentence should be identified. Ability to send and receive email, and read and print out material from web pages is assumed.

week	m	w	f	a student’s latin grammar and other exercises	morphology textbook and other readings
1	j-10	12	14	Read Chs. 31 & 38. Familiarize yourself with the book overall. Do the 18 exercises on pp. 95, 97; do also Latin 1–3*†	Ch. 1, What is morphology? Locate and read "Latin Verb Inflection"†
2	hdy	19	21	Ch. 14, on Cases (22 sentences*)	Ch. 2, Word, word-form, and lexeme
3	24	26	28	Ch. 15, more on Cases (10 sentences*) Latin 4*	Ch. 3, Inflections and word-formation
4	31	f-2	4	Ch. 17, on Agreement (6 sentences*) Latin 10	Ch. 4, Lexical derivation "Morphological paradoxes"† (esp. Nos. 3 and 5)
5	7	9	11	Ch. 20, on Participles (12 sentences*) Turkish*†	Ch. 5, Compounds
6	14	16	18	Ch. 21, on Infinitives (8 sentences*) Swahili 1–3*†	Ch. 6, Morphemes and allomorphs "Word and Paradigm (WP)"† (§§3–4 esp.)
7	hdy	23	25	Ch. 26, on Gerunds, etc. (15 sentences*) Swahili 4–5*†	Ch. 5, "Words, words, words," from Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct
8	28	m-1	3	Ch. 35, on the Subjunctive (19 sentences*) Swahili 6*†	Ch. 7, Morphological processes; "Morphological processes"†
9	6	8	10	Tagalog*†; Latin 5†	Ch. 8, Morphophonemics
10	13	15	17	Welsh*†; Latin 5 (cont.)*	Ch. 9, Properties and their exponents
11	20	22	24	review and midterm
spring recess
12	a-3	5	7	Latin 7†	Ch. 10, Paradigms; "Word and Paradigm (WP)"† (§§1–2 esp.)
13	10	12	14	Latin 7 (cont.)*; Latin 8†	Ch. 11, Inflectional morphology and syntax
14	17	19	hdy	Latin 8 (cont.)*; Latin 9†	Aronoff 1994; "Inflectional Paradigms"†
15	24	26	28	Latin 9 (cont.)*	Ch. 12, Iconicity; "Markedness and Iconicity: Some Questions"†
16	m-1	3	—	review
	8		—	final examination 9:45–11:45 a.m.
				*due at last meeting of week	† http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bender/toc.html

Midterm results

Chart

Most commonly missed questions in Part 1

Final exam results and course grades