LNGS3603 - Morphology

Semester 1, 2011  |  Credit Points: 6

Coordinator: Jason Clift Johnston
Phone: +61 2 9351 3655
Email: jason.johnston@sydney.edu.au

Description

This unit of study covers the following issues: morphological typology and classifications; formal properties of morphological phenomena: concatenative morphology, affixation; nonconcatenative morphology: root and pattern morphology, reduplication, truncations, hypocoristic formation; formal representation of morphological processes; functional aspects of morphology categories, grammatical relations, classification system; current models of morphology.

Assessments

1x1000wd equivalent tutorial paper (20%), 2x1000wd problem sets (30%), 1x3000wd essay (50%)

Classes

1x2-hr seminar/week

Prerequisites

(one of LNGS2620, LNGS2621) and (one of LNGS2602, LNGS2603)

Prohibitions

LNGS3025

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