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| Morphology Home Ling 105 Morphology Morphology is the study of how words are constructed, just as syntax is the study of how sentences are constructed. Morphology has an obvious connection to phonology, since words are made up of phonemes as well as morphemes, and the phonological shape of a morpheme may depend on its phonological environment. It also has a connection to syntax, since the internal structure of a word may depend in part on its syntactic environment, and it has a connection to semantics, since the meaning of a complex word is a function (sometimes a very interesting function) of the meaning of its parts. The course has two main goals: (i) to provide an introduction to some of the basic theoretical problems in morphology, and (ii) to go through a series of problems in order to see morphological processes at work and develop the ability of doing morphological analysis. As a term project, each student will adopt a language and be responsible for developing a morphological description for it. The work will consist of a number of analytical problems, some readings, and a term paper on the morphology of some language.
Prerequisites: Ling 101 (Phonology One),
and either Ling 52
(Syntax One), or Ling 55 (Syntactic Structures). General Education Code: None
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