Universität Wien

160135 VO Morphologie (2022W)

4.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 16 - Musikwissenschaft und Sprachwissenschaft
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Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 07.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 14.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 21.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 28.10. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 04.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 11.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 18.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 25.11. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 02.12. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 09.12. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 16.12. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 13.01. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 20.01. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
  • Freitag 27.01. 17:00 - 18:30 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

To the average working linguist, morphology has, at best, a marginal interest: the few concepts that vaguely makes part of the linguist's Allgemeinwissen seems already enough for the morphological aspects of one's daily linguistic research; why actually learning about it? This course will attempt to convince you otherwise.

In the first part of this course, we will rediscover the all-too-familiar basics: prefixes, suffixes, stems, ablaut, suppletion, ... up to the diverse types of morphological expression in human languages. The second part of the course will focus on the phenomenon of morphological form itself. The theoretical framework followed is the “word-based” or “implicative” approach (Aronoff, Ackerman, Blevins...), or, in general, the study of various phenomena that happens to word forms qua forms.

Some of the questions we'll attempt to answer in this course include:
- Is German more difficult than Malay? (Morphologically: yes)
- How can a speaker of West Solpor Kranomalian conjugate the 4,000 different verbs in 92,160 forms each? (The answer is almost as complicated as learning to speak West Solpor Kranomalian)
- Verb class A28 and D15 in Classical Gagaga merged in modern Gagg. Why are the modern forms traceable to A28 and not to D15 forms? (Frequency plays an important role)

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Mid-length written exercise (Take-Home-Exam) at the end of the semester, where all materials are permitted.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

The student is expected to have a deep, if not particularly detailed, understanding of the concepts and topics treated in the course.

Prüfungsstoff

The student will be graded on their ability to understand recent discussions of linguistic morphology in particular languages.

Literatur

Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself: Stems and inflectional classes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Blevins, James P., and Juliette Blevins, eds. Analogy in grammar: Form and acquisition. OUP Oxford, 2009.
World Atlas of Language Structures Online: https://wals.info/

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

MA1-M3
MA4-WM1.1
MA4-WM1.3
MA4-WM1.4

Letzte Änderung: Fr 03.02.2023 12:08