Lectures

[Part 0: Basic topics covered in Li1]

a. introduction and word formation (slides) (video) 

b. evidence for morphemes (slides) (video)

c. features in morphology (slides) (video)

d. hierarchical structure (slides) (video part 1) (video part 2)

e. morphological typology (slides) (video)

Part I: Core topics

week 1 10 Oct '22 introduction to and overview of morphological analysis (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 2 17 Oct '22 decomposition, or "the morphemic hypothesis" (video) (pdf) (readings)

counterarguments from a WP perspective by Sammy Andersson and Ollie Sayeed (pdf)

week 3 24 Oct '22 argument structure and morphology (bonus guest  lecture by Matt Tyler) (pdf)

week 4 31 Oct '22 inflection and derivation (pdf) (readings)

week 5 7 Nov '22 gender and agreement (audio) (pdf) (readings)

Part II: External evidence

week 6 14 Nov '22 diachrony (audio) (pdf) (readings)

week 7 21 Nov '22 psychomorphology and neuromorphology (audio) (pdf) (readings)

week 8 28 Nov '22 acquisition of morphology (video) (pdf) (readings)

Part III: Advanced topics

week 1 23 Jan '23 productivity and regularity (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 2 30 Jan '23 morphomes and priscianic phenomena (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 3 6 Feb '23 blocking (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 4 13 Feb '23 opacity (video) (pdf) (readings)

Part III: Theories

week 5 20 Feb '23 Lexical Phonology and Morphology (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 6 27 Feb '23 Prosodic Morphology (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 7 6 Mar '23 Distributed Morphology (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 8 13 Mar '23 Word and Paradigm Morphology (video) (pdf) (readings)

Part IV: Theory comparison and review

week 1 1 May '23 theory comparison (with special reference to prosodically-conditioned suppletive allomorphy) (video) (pdf) (readings)

week 2 8 May '23 review of key concepts covered in the paper; exam preparation (video)