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Morphology

Objectives

The main objectives of the unit are to enable the student to:
1. Demonstrate critical knowledge and understanding of key morphological concepts;
2. Have skills that allow them to describe and analyze inflection, derivation and compounding processes of unfamiliar languages;
3. Determine to what extent the morphological processes interact with other components of the grammar, namely the interaction between morphology and syntax and the relationship between morphology and phonology;
4. Identify and describe different morphological models.

General characterization

Code

02112289

Credits

5.0

Responsible teacher

Maria do Céu Sernache Caetano Mocho

Hours

Weekly - Available soon

Total - 140

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • CARSTAIRS-McCarthy, Andrew. 2018. An Introduction to English Morphology. Words and their structure. Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press, 2nd ed.
  • HASPELMATH, Martin. 2010. Understanding Morphology. London: Arnold, 2nd ed.
  • SPENCER, Andrew & Arnold M. ZWICKY (eds) 1998. The Handbook of Morphology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • ŠTEKAUER, Pavol & Rochelle Lieber (eds) 2005. Handbook of Word-Formation. Dordrecht: Springer Verlag.
  • TAYLOR, John R. 2017. The Oxford Handbook of the Word. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Teaching method

The proposed topics for study and discussion are scheduled at the beginning of each semester and previously prepared subsequent to readings of recommended bibliography. Students are expected to participate actively, namely with oral presentations of readings, discussion of subject matters, autonomous resolution of practical exercises and presentation of an individual original work. In tutorials, master’s students will have a regular personalized monitoring.

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

1. The object of study in morphology
2. Units of morphological analysis
3. Inflection, derivation and compounding in different languages types
4. The interaction between morphology and other linguistic areas
5. Morphology’s place in the grammar