Prospectus

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Morfologie en Syntaxis

Course
2009-2010

In this course we examine the structure of words and sentences by looking at the structure of a wide range of languages and the practical analysis of the word structure of these languages. We train the basic principles of morphological and morphosyntactic analysis.

Rooster

Collegerooster
Maandag 11-13h

Onderwijsvorm

werkcollege

A la Carte- en Contractonderwijs

Mits de kerncurriculumcursus Taalwetenschap is gevolgd (of bij andere taalkundige vooropleiding).

Belangstellenden die deze cursus in het kader van A la carte willen volgen (zonder tentamen), vinden hier informatie over kosten, inschrijving, voorwaarden etc.

Belangstellenden die deze cursus in het kader van Contractonderwijs willen volgen (met tentamen), vinden hier informatie over kosten, inschrijving, voorwaarden etc.

Leerdoelen

At the end of the course, students will be able to undertake morphological and basic syntactic analysis of a given data set and they will be able to interpret or reason out whether or not certain analyses are correct.

Literatuur

Aronoff & Fudemann 2005 What is morphology? Blackwell
Van Valin & LaPolla 1997 Syntax CUP. (partly)

Toetsing

weekly exercises, analysis of a data set, written exam

Informatie

bij de docent

Overzicht

Overview – General introduction and discussion on morphemes and allomorphs; roots, affixes and words. – ‘item and arrangement morphology’: discussion on morpheme sequencing and the problem of ‘portmanteau’ morphemes. More on types of morphemes: roots, stems and words. – Derivation versus Inflection. Stem extension and word derivation, nominalization: cases from Cushitic and Bantu languages. – Reduplication and compounding. Morphological theory and representation. – Basic syntax: Consituents. Arguments, diathesis – Sentence types including nominal sentences, simple sentences, questions, relative clauses, complex sentences and their connections; complementation. – Remaining issues.