Feb. 16. Word-based morphology: is the word the minimal sign? Truncation rules, subtraction, back-formation. Triangular relationships.
Read Ch. 9 of Haspelmath.
Problem 6 due.
Feb. 21. Presidents' Day. No class.
Feb. 23. Distinguishing morpholexical and morphophonological rules: locality, conditioning, ordering. Selection vs. replacement. The peripherality constraint.
Read Ch. 10 of Haspelmath.
Problem 7 due.
Feb. 28. Morphology-phonology interactions and correlations; their explanation in Lexical Phonology and Morphology. Level-ordering, cyclicity. ``Bracketing paradoxes''.
Reading from H. Giegerich, Lexical Strata in English.
March 2. Prosodic morphology: can non-concatenative morphology be reduced to affixation? Overlapping realization (intercalation, superimposition): infixes, superfixes, root-and-pattern morphology, mutation, sound symbolism. Reduplication. Prosodic accounts of clipping, blends, "subtractive" morphemes, metathesis.
Reading from McCarthy & Prince, Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction.
Problem 8 due.