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Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Morphology

Welcome

Welcome to Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Morphology! On this page, I will condense all presentation materials, summaries of our interactive sessions, and also the weekly homework assignments.

To get started, you can find the syllabus below with everything important accessible via links. Each homework assignment is to be prepared for the following week (#1 for week 2 …). I also discuss the design of the course under workflow.

You can download this page as html ctrl+s and view it in your Browser offline in case you don’t have internet connection. If you really need a print of individual sections, this website is fairly well optimized for printing via your browser’s print option ctrl+p.

Syllabus

Date Topic Main Reading Homework1
21.04. 1 Welcome #1
28.04. 2 Word classes Stefanowitsch (To appear) ch. 1-2 #2
05.05. 3 Form and meaning Stefanowitsch (To appear) ch. 3 #3
12.05. 4 Lexical Relations Justeson & Katz (1991) #4
19.05. 5 Collocation Kennedy (2003) #5
02.06. 6 Metaphor and metonymy Deignan (2005) #6
09.06. 7 Focus I: Derivation Kaunisto (1999) #7
16.06. 8 Focus II: Irregular inflection Anderwald (2011) #8
23.06. 9 Focus III: Conversion Deignan (2006) #9
30.06. 10 Focus IV: Productivity Plag, Dalton-Puffer & Baayen (1999) #10
07.07. 11 Focus V: Morphosyntax Rosenbach (2003) #11
14.07. 12 Project Day 1 t.b.a.
21.07. 13 Project Day 2 t.b.a.

Contact

Course Requirements

  • Enrollment on Campus Management (CM)
  • successfully participated in an introductory class to linguistics

A basic grasp of linguistic concepts and a basic knowledge of linguistic terminology is required. If this is the first linguistics seminar for your, please contact me.

  • Regular participation: Stay in touch, do homework, participate in group activity.
  • Lecture course: regular and active participation is also required in the lecture course Levels of Linguistic Analysis I. It is not offered this semester, so ideally you take it in winter.

If you cannot successfully join live sessions, contact me and we will find a solution. Also contact me if you cannot participate in the accompanying lecture course.

Weekly workflow

These are basic components of our seminar:

  1. Preparation
    • Read the paper of the week
  2. Live sessions
    • My weekly presentations
    • Interactive and group exercises
  3. Follow up
    • Do Homework (this website)
    • Read summaries (this website)
    • (optional) Tutorial
      • more practice
      • platform for questions
      • socialize

I. This Website

This website is going to be the main hub for information. It will essentially replace most PDF materials you are familiar with from regular semesters, such as presentation slides. You will find all course information, the syllabus, bibliography, and tips and tricks, which you can easily navigate with the sidebar.

All homework will be published here. I’d recommend you bookmark the syllabus, because everything that is relevant weekly is linked from there.

The main sections will replace presentation slides. They will be written in the form of short articles that pick up some major points that came up during the live session. They also might go a bit deeper into certain subjects.

My aim is to make the experience as integrated as possible and tell the story of our class in a coherent way throughout the semesters. Inform me about broken or misdirected links. :)

Blackboard

I am not planning to use Blackboard at all this semester. I like responsive websites that work on every browser, and aren’t built with expensive closed source software. Being able to link content directly is also a plus.

II. Live streams

Every week at the scheduled seminar time—Thursdays 16:00–18:00—I will live-stream my main presentation. For the most part, this will be like a regular seminar, except that we are not all in the same room. Other than that, everyone can ask questions with or without microphone, and it will be as interactive as usual (or even more so). I will integrate anything interesting that comes up during the live session into this website. So no one is going to miss out on interesting questions or spontaneous discussions that develop during a live session.

III. Self-study

There is a preparatory reading every week. I will build on it, and assume that you are familiar with it. Reading academic literature is one of the major corner stones of this (and most other) seminars. Most of the times, there will also be a special homework task posted here.

In fact, the bulk of the work, you have to do by yourself. This is nothing special about an online semester. If you look up what an ECTS credit represents, you will find that it is work load measured in time. If you then subtract the little time we use during live sessions, you’ll realize how much time is left for you to prepare for every week, study the readings, discover your own further readings, do research for your own project, or practice. Ideally, you should have read even more than just the recommended literature by the end of the seminar. Reality check if you find yourself skipping entire readings or procrastinating homework assignments.

IV. Tutorial

We are offering a tutorial in which you will practice some basics in academic writing, and most importantly, practice the methodological skills you learn in this course. Our student assistant and tutor Arne will also be open for any questions you are too shy to ask me. ;) Even though it is optional, I highly recommend that you participate regularly. The most difficult thing for most people at the end is to find a good research topic. If you participate actively in both this course and the tutorial, there is almost no way you won’t be able to finish this class successfully.