31358 - General Linguistics 2 (A)

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Sergio Scalise
  • Credits: 9
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Foreign Languages and Literature (cod. 0979)

Learning outcomes

Students will be acquainted with the most important models of morphology.he will be able to understand the relationship between morphology and phonology, syntax and semantics. He will also be able to distinguish typological differences among various languages. Students will acquire the necessary tools in order to analyze the morphology of a language: compounds, derived words and inflected words.

Course contents

Grammar and Morphology. Morpheme and Word. Lexical repreentations. Word Formation Rules. Compounding. Readjustment rules. The notion of Head. Conditions on the word formation rules. Rule interaction. Some special cases. Typology.

Readings/Bibliography

S.Scalise, Morfologia, Bologna, il Mulino.
S.Scalise & A.Bisetto, La struttura delle parole, Bologna, il Mulino.

Further readings will be suggested in class

Teaching methods

Methodology is both theoretical and empirical: sets od data from various languages will be analyzed in explicit theoretical frameworks.

Assessment methods

The exam is written; there will be open questions among which definitions and analyses

Teaching tools

Power point presentations. Web.

Links to further information

http://morbo.lingue.unibo.it/

Office hours

See the website of Sergio Scalise