Morphology
Professor Shi Baohui
MA General and Applied Linguistics
School of Foreign Languages
BeijingForestryUniversity
Spring 2006
1. Lecture List
Week / General / Readings / English / Readings1 / Introduction / Booij: Chs. 1-2;
A & F: Chs. 1-2;
Plag: Ch. 1. / Word history / S & M: Chs. 1-2.
2 / Derivation / Booij: Ch. 3;
A & F: Ch. 4;
Plag: Ch. 4-5. / Word forms / S & M: Chs. 3-4.
3 / Compounding / Booij: Ch. 4;
Plag: Ch. 6. / Allomorphy / S & M: Ch. 5.
4 / Inflection / Booij: Chs. 5-6;
A & F: Ch. 6. / Replacement / S & M: Ch. 6.
5 / Morphology & phonology / Booij: Ch. 7;
A & F: Ch. 3;
Plag: Ch.7. / Deletion / S & M: Ch. 7.
6 / Morphology & syntax / Booij: Ch. 8;
A & F: Ch. 7. / Fossilization / S & M: Ch. 8.
7 / Morphology & semantics / Booij: Ch. 9;
A & F: Ch. 5. / Word meaning / S & M: Ch. 9.
8 / Morphology mind / Booij: Chs. 10-11;
A & F: Ch. 8;
Plag: Ch. 3. / Classical words & dictionaries / S & M: Ch. 10-
App. 1.
2. Coursebook and Essential Readings
The main text relating general morphology is:
Booij, Geert. 2005. The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
The essential readings for this course are:
Aronoff, Mark & Kirsten Fudeman. 2005. What is Morphology?Oxford: Blackwell.
Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
The main text on English words is:
Stockwell, Robert & Donka Minkova. 2001. English Words: History and Structure. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
(A full list of references is found overleaf.)
3. Assessment
This is by coursework and an essay on an assigned topic, both carrying equal weight towards the final score. The essay topics will be available later in the course.
4. References
Adam, Valerie. 1973. An Introduction to Modern English Word-formation. Harlow: Longman.
Aronoff, Mark & Kirsten Fudeman. 2005. What is Morphology?Oxford: Blackwell.
Bauer, Laurie. 1983. English Word-formation. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Bauer, Laurie. 1998. Vocabulary. London: Routledge.
Bauer, Laurie. 2001. Morphological Productivity. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Bauer, Laurie & Rodney Huddleston. 2002. Lexical word-formation. In Huddleston & Pullum, pp. 1621-1721.
Booij, Geert. 2005. The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
Burchfield, R. W. 1998. The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage. Rev’d 3/e. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 2002. An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: EdinburghUniversity Press.
Carter, Ronald. 1987. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives. London: Allen & Unwin.
Crystal, David. 2001. Language and the Internet. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Fernando, Chitra. 1996. Idioms and Idiomaticity. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press. (SFLEP)
Foley, James. 1991. The Wonder of Words. 2/e. Vancouver: Abecedarian.
Freeborn, Dennis. 1998. From Old English to Standard English. 2nd ed. London: Macmillan.
Greenbaum, Sydney. 1996. The Oxford English Grammar. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press. (Ch. 9)
Hatch, Evelyn & Cheryl Brown. 1995. Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language Education. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.(FLTRP)
Huddleston, Rodney & Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2002. The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. (Chs. 18-19)
Jackendoff, Ray. 2002. Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press. (Part II)
Matthews, Peter. 1991. Morphology. 2/e. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.(FLTRP)
McCarthy, John J. & Alan Prince. 2001. Prosodic Morphology: Constraint Interaction and Satisfaction. Ms. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, & RutgersUniversity.
McCarthy, Michael. 1990. Vocabulary. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.
Packard, Jerome L. 2000. The Morphology of Chinese: A Linguistic and Cognitive Approach. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.(FLTRP)
Palmer, Frank, Rodney Huddleston & Geoffrey K. Pullum. 2002. Inflectional morphology and related matters. In Huddleston & Pullum, pp. 1565-1619.
Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik. 1985. A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. Harlow: Longman. (Appendix I: Word-formation, pp. 1515-1585)
Russell, Kevin. 1999. MOT: Sketch of an OT Approach to Morphology. Ms. University of Manitoba, Canada.
Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological Theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Spencer, Andrew. 2003a. Morphology. Undergraduate Lecture Notes. University of Essex.
Spencer, Andrew. 2003b. Morphology. Graduate Lecture Notes. University of Essex.
Spencer, Andrew. 2003c. English Word Structure. Lecture Notes. University of Essex.
Spencer, Andrew. 2003d. Morphosyntax. Lecture Notes. University of Essex.
Stockwell, Robert & Donka Minkova. 2001. English Words: History and Structure. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press.
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