Word Formation
Code
711131060
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Linguística
Credits
6
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
a) To know and to evaluate different theoretical word formation frameworks and processes;
b) To discuss the notion of morphological productivity;
c) To distinguish the productive word formation processes from the non productive ones;
d) To set the limits of word formation domain;
e) To apply advanced technical skills to morphological analysis.
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
1. The lexicalist approach to word-formation and the notion of the lexicon;
2. The interfaces morphology-phonology, morphology-syntax, morphology-semantics and morphology-lexicon;
3. Constraints on productivity;
4. Word-Formation processes;
5. Combinatory properties of prefixes and suffixes;
6. Isofunctional and rival suffixes;
7. Compounding: inflexion and derivation of compounds.
Bibliography
Anderson, Stephen R., 1992. A-MorphousMorphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bauer, Laurie, 2001. Morphological Productivity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Booij, Geert, 2005. The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew, 2002. An Introduction to English Morphology. Words and their structure. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Plag, Ingo, 1999. Word-formation in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spencer, Andrew, 2005. Morphological Theory. An introduction to word structure in generative grammar. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.
tekauer, Pavol & Rochelle Lieber (eds.), 2005. Handbook of Word-Formation. the Netherlands: Springer.
Teaching method
Lectures;
Oral presentations and discussion of individual and group papers;
Workshops.
Inclass teaching
Evaluation method
Learning assessment: one oral presentation of subject matter related to the curricular unit contents (40%) and one written examination (Frequência) at the end of the semester (60%).