Morphosemantics: Course Plan

When: Mondays / Wednesdays 9:30 - 11:18
Where: Derby (DB) 0048

Emmon Bach, SOAS, UMass(Amherst)
e m a i l: firstinitialsurname (at) linguist (dot) umass (dot) edu
phones: home: 020 8444 4647
SOAS: 020 7898 4593
Copyright Emmon Bach 2008. All rights reserved.
Office hrs: M W 1-3 and by appointment, Oxley 201a
Notes for classes will be posted at / linked to
"http://www.people.umass.edu/ebach/courses/osu08-pl.htm"

Procedures:

Lectures and discussion
Exercises

Content of Lectures: The Semantics of Words: Exploration of Selected Topics of Recent and Current Research.

  1. (31 March) Background, Central Questions, Central Assumptions

  2. (2 April) What's morphology? Various answers. Languages: Pacific Northwest, Wakashan.

  3. (7 April) Derivational processes I. Language Lessons: Haisla.

  4. (9 April) A: Derivational processes II. B: Language Lessons: Western Abenaki.

  5. (14 April) Inflectional morphology, some grammatical categories; Language Lessons: Western Abenaki, Yup'ik.

  6. (16 April) Finale: Addenda; Some Questions and Some Answers

References: will be found at
"http://www.people.umass.edu/ebach/courses/mrphrefs.htm".
They will be given in short form e.g.: Sapir 1911. Please note they will be updated regularly.