COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MORPHOLOGICAL THEORIES II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 5064 MORPHOLOGICAL THEORIES II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR KAMIL IŞERI

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

The aim of this course is; to understand and question existing theories in literature and measure their applicalibility to Turkish in order to create principle and method to search and analyze languages' morphological system.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognize morphology theories
2   Determine and analyze morphological systems
3   Develop principles and methods on how to use morphology in explaining language mechanism
4   Come up with universals comving from samples taken from real languages, and explain parameters
5   Determine parameters of samples taken from real languages

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Why have a (distinct) morphology, what are words made of classical morphemes , classical problems with morphemes, generalizing the phonological structure of the morpheme items vs. processes in morphology Spencer, A. (1991). Morphological theory: An introduction to word structure in generative grammar. Wiley-Blackwell.
2 word-based vs. morpheme-based morphology morphology and the syntax / clitics / inflection / theory of morphosyntactic representations / theory of configurational assignment / theory of phrasal properties / theory of agreement / phonological realization of morphological properties organization of morphology/morphology and the lexicon / derivation / compounding Spencer, A. (1991). Morphological theory: An introduction to word structure in generative grammar. Wiley-Blackwell. Bybee, J. L. (1988). Morphology as lexical organization. Theoretical morphology, 119141. Marantz, A. (1997). No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon. University of Pennsylvania working papers in linguistics, 4(2), 14.
3 Morphology and Mind I Hall, C. J. (2014). Morphology and Mind (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics. Routledge.
4 Morphology and Mind II Hall, C. J. (2014). Morphology and Mind (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics. Routledge
5 Inflectional Morphology Stump, G. T. (2001). Inflectional morphology: A theory of paradigm structure (Vol. 93). Cambridge University Press.
6 Derivational Morphology Van Hout, A., & Roeper, T. (1998). Events and aspectual structure in derivational morphology. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 32, 175-220.
7 Practice and Argumentations on Turkish
8 Midterm
9 Distributed Morphology I Halle, M., & Marantz, A. (1994). Some key features of Distributed Morphology. MIT working papers in linguistics, 21(275), 88.
10 Distributed Morphology II Embick, D., & Noyer, R. (2007). Distributed morphology and the syntax/morphology interface. The Oxford handbook of linguistic interfaces, 289-324.
11 Construction Morphology I Booij, G. (2010). Construction morphology. Language and linguistics compass, 4(7), 543-555.
12 Construction Morphology II Booij, G. (2010). Construction morphology. Language and linguistics compass, 4(7), 543-555.
13 Presentations I: Practice of the Theories on Turkish
14 Presentations II: Practice of the Theories on Turkish

Recomended or Required Reading

Beard, R. (1995). Lexeme-morpheme Base Morphology: A General Theory of Inflection and Word Formation (SUNY Series in Linguistics). State University of New York Press.
Booij, G. (2010). Construction morphology. Language and linguistics compass, 4(7), 543-555.
Bybee, J. L. (1988). Morphology as lexical organization. Theoretical morphology, 119141.
Embick, D., & Noyer, R. (2007). Distributed morphology and the syntax/morphology interface. The Oxford handbook of linguistic interfaces, 289-324.
Hall, C. J. (2014). Morphology and Mind (RLE Linguistics C: Applied Linguistics): A Unified Approach to Explanation in Linguistics. Routledge.
Halle, M., & Marantz, A. (1994). Some key features of Distributed Morphology. MIT working papers in linguistics, 21(275), 88.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Question and answer
4. Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.20 + PRJ* 0.20 + PRS* 0.20 + FIN* 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + PRJ * 0.20 + PRS * 0.20 + RST* 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes 1,2,3 will be evaluated via Mid-term and Final.
Learning outcomes 4 and 5 will be evaluated via homework assignment/Project

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Case study 13 1 13
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Project Preparation 1 13 13
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 17 17
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparing assignments 1 6 6
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 1 1
Quiz etc. 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.155555
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45
LO.555

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