Universität Wien

122048 PS Proseminar Linguistics 2 (BA) (2024W)

Morphology in English

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
Th 09.01. 14:15-15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 21 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 10.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 17.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 24.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 31.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 07.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 14.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 21.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 28.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 05.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 12.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 16.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 23.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13
  • Thursday 30.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Raum 3 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-13

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Linguistic morphology is the science of the inner structure and the creation of words. The content of this course comprises a repetition and elaboration of basic and advanced concepts and terminology of morphology (e.g. morpheme, affix, allomorph, morphological process, word-form and lexeme, inflection and derivation, compounding, word-formation, conversion, productivity, extra-grammatical morphology, etc.) and the way they are applied in morphological theorizing and the analysis of English morphology. Furthermore, course participants learn how to work empirically and write an empirical academic paper in linguistics by finding morphological data for themselves and coming up with hypotheses of their own through the use of English language corpora.

Assessment and permitted materials

Class attendance and active participation, readings and small assignments, discussions, presentation, proseminar paper.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Minimum requirements:
-) regular class attendance (max. 2 absences)
-) regular participation in class and completion of regular readings and small assignments
-) submitting a project proposal (on time)
-) giving a presentation (on time)
-) conducting a small research project and submitting a proseminar paper (on time)
-) refraining from plagiarism in all tasks

Course evaluation is based on:
Participation and small assignments (15%)
Project proposal (10%)
Presentation (20%)
Proseminar paper (55%)

Pass grade: obtaining at least 50% on each of the three parts (see I, II and III below) and 60 points overall
I. class participation and tasks (max. 15 points)
II. engagement in research process, including proposal and presentation (max. 30 points)
III. term paper (individual) of approximately 3500 words (max. 55 points)

Grades:
1: 90-100%
2: 80-89.9%
3: 70-79.9%
4: 60-69.9%
5: < 60%

Examination topics

Not relevant for this course.

Reading list

Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English word-formation. Cambridge: C. University Press.

Bauer, Laurie. 1998. Is there a class of neoclassical compounds, and if so is it productive? Linguistics 36. 403-422.

Bauer, Laurie. 2001. Morphological productivity. Cambridge: C. University Press. [esp. §6.4]

Bauer, Laurie. 2017. Compounds and compounding. Cambridge: C. University Press. [esp. §6]

Bauer, Laurie, Rochelle Lieber & Ingo Plag. 2013. The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: O. University Press.

Bauer, Laurie with I. S. P. Nation. 2020. English morphology for the language teaching profession. New York: Routledge.

Bejan, Camelia. 2017. English words: Structure, origin and meaning - A linguistic introduction. New York: Addleton Academic Publishers. [esp. §1, 2.3]

Beliaeva, Natalia. 2014. A study of English blends: From structure to meaning and back again. Word Structure 7. 29-54.

Bisetto, Antonietta & Sergio Scalise. 2005. The classification of compounds. Lingue e Linguaggio 4. 319-332.

Booij, Geert. 1993. Against split morphology. In Geert Booij & Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of morphology 1993, 27-49. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 2018. An introduction to English morphology: Words and their structure. 2nd edn. Edinburgh: E. University Press.

Dalton-Puffer, Christiane & Ingo Plag. 2000. Categorywise, some compound-type morphemes seem to be rather suffix-like: On the status of -ful, -type, and -wise in Present Day English. Folia Linguistica 34. 225-244.

Dixon, R. M. W. 2014. Making new words: Morphological derivation in English. Oxford: O. University Press.

Don, Jan. 2014. Morphological theory and the morphology of English. Edinburgh: E. University Press.

Farrell, Patrick. 2001. Functional shift as category underspecification. English Language and Linguistics 5. 109-130.

Hamawand, Zeki. 2011. Morphology in English: Word formation in Cognitive Grammar. London: Continuum.

Lieber, Rochelle. 2016. English nouns: The ecology of nominalization. Cambridge: C. University Press.

Lieber, Rochelle. 2022. Introducing morphology. 3rd edn. Cambridge: C. University Press.

Lightner, Theodore M. 1983. Introduction to English derivational morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

López Rúa, Paula. 2002. On the structure of acronyms and neighbouring categories: A prototype-based account. English Language and Linguistics 6. 31-60.

Martsa, Sándor. 2013. Conversion in English: A Cognitive Semantic approach. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. [esp. §1]

Mattiello, Elisa. 2013. Extra-grammatical morphology in English: Abbreviations, blends, reduplicatives, and related phenomena. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Mattiello, Elisa. 2017. Analogy in word-formation: A study of English neologisms and occasionalisms. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Minkova, Donka & Robert Stockwell. 2009. English words: History and structure. 2nd edn. Cambridge: C. University Press.

Plag, Ingo. 1999. Morphological productivity: Structural constraints in English derivation. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. [esp. §5]

Plag, Ingo. 2016. English. In Peter O. Müller, Ingeborg Ohnheiser, Susan Olsen & Franz Rainer (eds.), Word-formation: An international handbook of the languages of Europe, vol. 4, 2411-2427. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Plag, Ingo. 2018. Word-formation in English. 2nd edn. Cambridge: C. University Press.

Plag, Ingo, Christiane Dalton-Puffer & Harald Baayen. 1999. Morphological productivity across speech and writing. English Language and Linguistics 3. 209-228.

Schneider, Klaus P. 2003. Diminutives in English. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer.

Stefanowitsch, Anatol. 2020. Corpus linguistics: A guide to the methodology. Berlin: Language Science Press. https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/148 [esp. §9]

ten Hacken, Pius & Renáta Panocová. 2015. Word formation and transparency in medical English. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612;
Code/Modul: BA06.1;
Lehrinhalt: 12-2044

Last modified: Fr 27.09.2024 16:45