Distributed Morphology ABRALIN 2007, February 22-27, 2007 Heidi Harley, University of Arizona
[email protected]; http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~hharley/ Readings: Downloadable from the course home page, http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~hharley/courses/ABRALIN/ABRALIN2007/ (Note: Schedule is only approximate! We will deviate from this if we need to.) Feb. 22 Introduction to (post-)syntactic morphology Harley and Noyer 2000: "Distributed Morphology" Bobaljik 2000: "The ins and outs of contextual allomorphy" Feb. 23 Complex verb structure Harley, 2006, "On the causative construction" Travis, 2000, "Event Structure in Syntax" Feb. 24 Irregularity, blocking and getting morphemes in order Embick, David. "Locality, Listedness and Morphological Identity" Barragan, Luis. "Movement and allomorphy in the Cupeno verb construction" Feb. 25 Phi-features and post-syntactic morphological operations Williams, Edwin. "Remarks on Lexical Knowledge" Bobaljik, Jonathan. "Syncretism without paradigms" (Frampton, John. "Syncretism, Impoverishment and the structure of person features") Feb. 26 DM as a psychological model Pfau, R. 2000. "Speech Errors and Distributed Morphology" Chapts 1, 2 and 4 only. Longtin, C-M et al. 2000"Morphological Priming Without Morphological Relationship" Feb. 27 Wrap-up: DM and semantics Marantz, Alec. 1997. "No escape from syntax: Don't try morphological analysis in the privacy of your own lexicon." Kratzer, Angelika. 1996. "Severing the external argument from its verb" Harley/ Distributed Morphology Lecture Notes ABRALIN 2007 1 Background: Distributed Morphology and the Syntax-Morphology Interface Harley and Noyer 2000: "Distributed Morphology" Some morphological terminology: stem for ‘suffix2’ [[prefix[[root]suffix1]]suffix2] root=stem for suffix1 stem for ‘prefix’ Example: [[in[[describ]abil]ity] derivation vs.