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175-324/424 Morphology

Credit points: 16.7 3rd and 4th years

Coordinator: Ilia Pejros.

Prerequisite: 175-210/310 Phonetics and Phonology.

Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week.

Timetable: Second semester

Objectives:

By the end of the subject, students should:

• have mastered the classic structuralist techniques for discovering, analysing and describing the morphology of an unknown language;
• be familiar with the main types of morphological phenomena found among the languages of the world;
• have a basic understanding of contemporary morphological theory.

Content:

Introduction to the morphological diversity of the world's languages; to the principles, techniques and theories needed to analyse them; and to their relation to syntax, phonology, semantics, and discourse function.

Assessment:

Regular assignment problems, a mid-term examination, and a take-home examination, totalling 5,000 words.

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