Jan. 12. Word-based and morpheme-based approaches to morphology.
Read Ch. 3 of Haspelmath and Ch. 1 of Stump, Inflectional Morphology.
Problem 1 due.
Jan 17. MLK Day. No class.
Jan. 19. Inflection and derivation. The split morphology hypothesis.
Read Ch. 4 of Haspelmath.
Problem 2 due.
Jan. 24. The structure of words: constituency, headedness. Compounding.
Read Ch. 5 of Haspelmath.
Jan. 26. Listing and productivity: the unbounded character of the lexicon. Accounting for idiosyncrasy and partial regularity. Blocking. Read Ch. 6 of Haspelmath.
Problem 3 due.
Jan. 31. Minimalist Morphology and Optimality Theory. Feature decomposition of inflectional categories: markedness, blocking, underspecification. Productivity and gaps. Periphrasis. Inheritance hierarchies.
Read Ch. 7 of Haspelmath, Wunderlich 1995.
Feb. 2. Inflectional paradigms and their properties. Explaining patterns of syncretism. Locality. Phonological constraints.
Read Carstairs, Bobaljik 2002, and Ch. 2 of Stump, Inflectional Morphology.
Problem 4 due.