120089 VO Special Linguistics Course: Morphology II (2008W)

This lecture is the second in a three-part series dealing with "Word-structure from a synchronic and diachronic point of view", an area which has been the subject of my research over the past decades.
The first series (SS 2008) dealt with basic concepts of morphology, the role of morphophonolgy and a description of Modern English inflectional morphology, followed by sketch of the historical development of English inflectional morphology. (It is electronically available on request).
The second series (WS 2008/2009) will deal with derivational morphology (word-formation) from a synchronic point of view and the relationship between word-formation, semantics and the lexicon. We will look at the various types of word-formation (compounding, prefixation, suffixation, but also blending, clipping, clipping-compounds), Neo-Latin word-formation and their morphological and semantic description. One specific aspect will be the relationship between word-formation and syntax, which has been one of the major topics in the past 50 years.
The third series (SS 2009) will discuss English word-formation from a diachronic point of view and the general historical development of the English lexicon.
Each part will to a certain extent be self-contained by having an introduction of its own, but in order for this series to achieve its purpose, it might be useful to attend more than just one part three parts (as we used to do fifty years ago).