Morphology
Code
711131051
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Maria do Céu Caetano
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
Te main aims of this curricular unit are:
a) The explanation of some basic concepts required in the study of morphology and the introduction to the most important models of morphological analysis;
b) The characterization of nominal and verbal inflexion, derivation (prefixation and suffixation) and compounding;
c) To provide some technical skills to analyse the internal structure of complex words;
d) The distinction between the processes of word formation from lexical creativity.
Prerequisites
None.
Subject matter
Introduction: the study of morphology under structuralist and generative models;
Delimitation of some basic concepts required in the study of morphology: morpheme, morph and allomorph; word (simple and complex words); types of affixes; stem and base;
Criteria for distinguishing inflection vs. derivation;
Derivation: prefixation; suffixation (nominal, adjectival and verbal suffixes); evaluative suffixation; parasynthesis; back-formation; conversion;
Representation of the internal structure of derivatives;
Compounding: criteria for defining a compound; exocentric and endocentric nominal compounds; neoclassical compounds;
Lexical creativity: clipping, blends, siglation, acronyms and loan words;
Discussion of the notions on productivity and creativity; productive and non productive processes.
Bibliography
Aronoff, Mark. 1976. Word Formation in Generative Grammar. Cambridge (MA): The MIT Press.
Bauer, Laurie. 2003. Introducing Linguistic Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2nd edition.
Katamba, Francis 1993. Morphology. London: MacMillan.
Mathews, Peter. 1991. Morphology. An Introduction to the Theory of Word Structure. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edition.
Pena, Jesús 1990. Sobre los modelos de descripción en morfología. Verba, vol. 17, pp. 5-75.
Rio-Torto, Graça Maria 1998. Morfologia Derivacional. Teoria e Aplicação ao Português. Porto:
Porto Editora.
Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological Theory. An introduction to word structure in generative grammar, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
Spencer, Andrew & Arnold M. Zwicky (eds.). 2001. The handbook of morphology. Oxford: Blackwell.
Teaching method
Lectures.
Oral presentations and discussion of individual and group papers.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment: 2 tests (50%) and 1 written examination test (“Frequência” – 50%).