Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL595) -  Βασιλική Μακρή

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63ΓΕ-118 Morphology and Linguistic Typology

 

In the field of linguistics, Morphology is the study of the internal structure of words and of the combination of morphemes to yield words. Morphological typology is a way of classifying the languages of the world on the basis of their common morphological structures. This field organizes languages according to the way these languages form words through the combination of morphemes. In contrast with synthetic, agglutinative and fusional language systems, analytic languages, like English, have poor inflectional morphology relying on features, such as word order and auxiliary words, to convey meaning and usually each word contains a single morpheme. This senior-level linguistics course introduces students to the structural typing of languages with regard to morphology. English will serve as the reference language and the central focus, yet English morphology will be contrasted to that of other languages and language types. Students will be introduced to the application of morphological research to the English language with the aim of describing its morphological structure and dissecting the generic explanations drawn in comparison to other languages. The class is designed to cover general concepts of morphological systems within the English language and across language typologies. In addition to examining the synchronic features of the language, we will explore diachronic aspects, such as the way language change emanates and language contact. Upon completion of the course, students will not only gain some familiarity with the descriptive tools to characterize morphological structure(s) but also with general linguistic theory, historical linguistics, language variation and change, and sociolinguistics, among others. The class will be run as a lecture-style seminar with practical application, in that the presentation of up-to-date work on the language-internal and interlingual examination of several morphological topics will be combined critically with in-class and out-of-class data analysis exercises. This course is primarily designed (i) to enable students to gain insight into Morphology, Typology and language-typological research, (ii) to provide students with basic research tools, including language-typological generalizations, techniques of constructing language samples and detecting sources for the retrieval of language data, and (iii) to offer them a general framework in order to acknowledge the primary role that Morphology plays in language design and usage.

 

Instructor: Vasiliki Makri

Ημερομηνία δημιουργίας

Τετάρτη 2 Μαρτίου 2022