Feb. 7. Clitics vs. affixes, compounds vs. phrases. Incorporation and complex predicates. Different versions of lexicalism. The mirror principle.
Read Ch. 8 of Haspelmath.
Feb. 9. Distributed Morphology.
Read Marantz, ``No Escape from Syntax'', Embick & Noyer, ``Distributed Morphology and the Syntax/Morphology Interface''.
Problem 5 due.
Feb. 14. Morphology and argument structure. Valency-changing operations. Synthetic compounds, nominalization and inheritance. Transpositional derivation. Incorporation, polysynthesis.
Read Ch. 11 of Haspelmath.