Readings

Textbooks and handbooks

recommended

Aronoff, Mark and Kirsten Fudeman 2011. What is morphology? (pdf)

Haspelmath, Martin and Andrea Sims 2012. Understanding morphology (pdf)

Lieber, Rochelle. 2009. Introducing morphology (pdf)

Nida, Eugene. 1949. Morphology (pdf)

Spencer, Andrew. 1991. Morphological theory (pdf)

optional

Aronoff, Mark. 1976. Word formation in generative grammar (pdf)

Booij, Geert et al. 2000-2004. Morphology: an international handbook on inflection and word-formation. (vol. 1) (vol. 2)

Booij, Geert. 2007. The grammar of words (pdf)

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew. 1992. Current morphology (pdf)

Hippisley, Andrew and Gregory Stump. 2016. The Cambridge Handbook of Morphology. (pdf)

Spencer, Andrew and Arnold Zwicky. 2001. The handbook of morphology. (pdf)

Štekauer and Lieber. 2005. Handbook of word-formation. (pdf)

Stewart, Thomas. 2016. Contemporary morphological theories: a user's guide. (pdf)

All of the following suggested readings are optional. In the traditional oxbridge system, students are expected to read widely around the field on their own initiative.

Readings marked with an asterisk * are suitable entry-level options.

week 1 introduction to and overview of morphological analysis

• Anderson 1992 chs. 1-3 (pdf)

• *Aronoff and Fudeman, Introduction to morphological analysis. (pdf)

• Booij ch. 1 (pdf)

• *Haspelmath and Sims chs. 1 and 2 (pdf)

• Nida ch. 2 (pdf)

• supporting materials specific to data covered in the lecture (no need to read these unless you're curious/hardcore):

  • Diakonoff, Igor and L. Kogan. 2007. Akkadian Morphology. (pdf)

  • Huber, Peter. 2018. On the Old Babylonian understanding of Sumerian grammar (pdf)

  • Huehnergard, John. 2011. A grammar of Akkadian, third edition. (pdf)

  • Katre, Sumitra. 1987. Aṣṭādhyāyī of Pāṇini in Roman transliteration. (pdf)

  • Kiparsky, Paul. 2009. On the architecture of Panini's grammar. (pdf)

  • Kowenberg, N. 2010. The Recycling of the T-infix in Prehistoric Akkadian: A Case of Exaptation. (pdf)

  • Jacobsen, Thorkild. 1956. Old Babylonian Grammatical Texts. Materialen zum Sumerischen Lexikon IV.II. (pdf)

  • Rubio, Gonzalo. 2007. Sumerian morphology. (pdf)

week 2 decomposition

• Baayen, Harald et al. 2000. Dutch inflection: the rule that proves the exception. (pdf)

• Bertinetto, Pier Marco. 1995. Compositionality and non-compositionality in morphology. (pdf)

• Embick, David et al. 2020. Morphology and the mental lexicon: three questions about decomposition. (pdf)

• Lignos, Constantine and Kyle Gorman. 2012. Revisiting frequency and storage in morphological processing. (pdf)

• Marantz, Alec. 2013. No escape from morphemes in morphological processing. (pdf)

• Zuraw, Kie et al. 2020. Competition between whole-word and decomposed representation of English prefixed words. (pdf)

[week 3 guest lecture]

week 4 inflection and derivation

• Anderson 1992 chs. 5-7 (pdf)

• *Aronoff and Fudeman chs. 6 and 7 (pdf)

• Aronoff et al. 2005, The paradox of sign language morphology (pdf)

• Bauer, Laurie. 2004. The function of word-formation and the inflection-derivation distinction. (pdf)

• Beard, Robert. 2001. Derivation. (pdf)

• Bickel and Nichols. 2001. Inflectional morphology. (pdf) (a typological perspective)

• Booij, Geert. 1996. Inherent vs Contextual Inflection. (pdf)

• Feldman, Laurie. 1993. Beyond orthography and phonology: differences between inflections and derivations. (pdf)

• *Haspelmath and Sims 2012 chapter 5 (pdf)

• *Lieber 2009, ch. 6 (pdf)

• Marangolo et al. 2003. The Right Hemisphere involvement in the processing of morphologically derived words. (pdf)

• Miceli and Caramazza. 1988. Dissociation of inflectional and derivational morphology. (pdf)

• Rice, Keren. 1985. On the placement of inflection. (pdf)

week 5 gender and agreement

• Aikhenvald ch. 98, Gender and noun class (pdf)

• Corbett ch. 9, Morphology and agreement (pdf)

• Corbett, Greville. 2013a. Number of Genders. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (html)

• Corbett, Greville. 2013b. Sex-based and Non-sex-based Gender Systems. In: Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.) The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. (html)

week 6 diachrony

• Anderson 1992 ch. 13 (pdf)

• Anderson, Stephen. 2014. Morphological change (pdf)

• *Booij 2007 ch. 11 (pdf)

• Bybee 1995, Diachronic and typological properties of morphology and their implications for representation (pdf)

• Carstairs-McCarthy 2010, The evolution of morphology (pdf)

• Harris 2006, Diachronic morphological typology (pdf)

• *Joseph ch. 18, Diachronic morphology (pdf)

week 7 psycho- and neuromorphology

• Baayen, Chuang, and Blevins 2018, Inflectional morphology with linear mappings. The Mental Lexicon 13.2:230–268.  (pdf)

• Badecker and Caramazza 2017 Morphology and aphasia (pdf)

• *Booij 2007 ch. 10, morphology and psycholinguistics (pdf)

week 8 acquisition of morphology

• *Archibald, J. & G. Libben. 2019. Morphological theory and second language acquisition. In: J. Audring & F. Masini (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford: OUP, chapter 26.

• *Blom, E. 2019. Morphological theory and first language acquisition. In: J. Audring & F. Masini (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Morphological Theory. Oxford: OUP, chapter 25.

• *Clark ch. 19, Morphology and language acquisition (pdf)

week 9 productivity and regularity

• Aronoff and Fudeman ch. 8 (pdf)

• Carstairs-McCarthy 2002 ch. 8 (pdf)

• Dal and Namer, Productivity (pdf)

• *Embick and Marantz 2005, Cognitive neuroscience and the English past tense (pdf)

• Haspelmath and Sims, ch. 6 (pdf)

• Koefoed and van Marle ch. 33, Productivity (pdf)

• Lieber 2009, ch. 4 (pdf)

• *Pinker, Steven. 2006.  Whatever happened to the past tense debate? (pdf)

• Pinker and Prince 1988, On language and connectionism: Analysis of a parallel distributed processing model of language acquisition (pdf)

• Plag 2021, Productivity (pdf)

• *Yang 2005, On productivity (pdf)

• Yang 2017, How to wake up irregular (and speechless) (pdf)

week 10 morphomes and priscianic phenomena

• *Steriade, Donca. 2022. Priscianic word formation: morphomes, referrals and alternatives (pdf)

• Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by itself, chs. 1-2 (pdf)

• Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo & Ana Luís. 2016. A view of the morphome debate (pdf)

• Blevins, Jim. 2016. Inflectional paradigms (pdf)

• Embick, David. 2016. On the distribution of stem alternants: Separation and its limits. (pdf)

• Maiden, Martin. The ‘Autonomy’ of Morphology in Diachrony (pdf)

• Nevins and Rodrigues 2012, Naturalness biases, morphomes, and the Romance first person singular (pdf)

• Steriade, Donca. 2016. The morphome vs similarity-based syncretism: Latin t-stem derivatives (pdf)

week 11 blocking

• Aronoff and Lindsay, Productivity, blocking, and lexicalization (pdf)

• Blevins, Markedness and blocking in German declensional paradigms (pdf)

• Carstairs-McCarthy section 8.4 (pdf)

• Embick et al. 2021, blocking effects (pdf)

• Embick, Blocking effects and analytic/synthetic alternations (pdf)

• Embick and Marantz, Architecture and blocking (pdf)

• Jensen ch. 5 (pdf)

• Kastner 2020, Blocking (pdf)

• Kiparsky, Blocking and periphrasis in inflectional paradigms (pdf)

• *Lieber 2009, ch. 10 (pdf)

• Plag 2002 section 3.5.3 (pdf)

• Poser, Blocking of phrasal constructions by lexical items (pdf)

• *Rainer, Blocking (doc)

week 12 opacity

• Bierwisch, Syntactic features in morphology (pdf)

• Bye, Allomorphy: Selection not optimization (pdf)

• Di Sciullo, Morphological phases (pdf)

• Dillon, Metaphony as morpheme realization, not vowel harmony (pdf)

• Green 2004, Opacity in Tiberian Hebrew: Morphology, not phonology (pdf)

• Kiparsky, The morphology of the Basque auxiliary (pdf)

• Kurisu, Double morphemic exponence as morphological opacity (pdf)

• O'Bryan 1973, Opacity and the loss of a morphological process (pdf)

• Pescarini, Prosodic restructuring and morphological opacity (pdf)

• Williams 1974, Rule ordering in syntax (pdf)

week 13 Lexical Phonology and Morphology

• Giegerich 1999, A requiem for Lexical Phonology? (pdf)

• Halle 1987, Why phonological strata should not include affixation (pdf)

• *Haspelmath and Sims 2012 ch. 10 (pdf)

• *Jensen ch. 5 (pdf)

• Kiparsky 1982, Lexical morphology and phonology (pdf)

• Kiparsky 2000, Opacity and cyclicity (pdf)

• Lieber 2009 ch. 9 (pdf)

• *Rubach 2008, An overview of Lexical Phonology (pdf)

• *van Oostendorp 2005, Lexical Phonology (pdf)

• *Zuraw 2012, Phonology-morphology interface (pdf)

week 14 Distributed Morphology

• *Bobaljik 2015, Distributed Morphology (pdf)

• Embick 2015, The morpheme (pdf)

• Halle and Marantz 2004, Some key features of Distributed Morphology (pdf)

• *Harley and Noyer 1999, State of the article: Distributed Morphology (pdf)

• Nevins 2015, Lectures on post-syntactic morphology (pdf)

• Siddiqi 2009, Syntax within the word: Economy, allomorphy, and argument selection in distributed morphology (pdf)

• Spencer 2019, Manufacturing consent over Distributed Morphology (pdf)

week 15 Prosodic Morphology

• *Aronoff and Fudeman ch. 3 (pdf)

• *Davenport and Hannahs ch. 10 (pdf)

• Kenstowicz 1994 chs. 8 and 11 (pdf)

• McCarthy and Prince 1998 (pdf)

• *McCarthy and Prince 2001, ch. 14 (pdf)

• Spencer 1991, ch. 5 (pdf)

week 16 Word and Paradigm Morphology

• Anderson 1992, Amorphous morphology (pdf)

• Baayen, Experimental evidence for word and paradigm morphology (pdf)

• Biberauer 2019, lecture handout on Inferential-Realizational approaches (pdf)

• Blevins 2011, Word-based morphology (pdf)

• Bybee 1988, Morphology as lexical organization (pdf)

week 17 theory comparison

• Blevins 2020, Two frameworks of morphological analysis (pdf)

• Myler and Vaux 2009, Theories of morphology-phonology interaction (pdf)

• Paster 2006, Phonological conditions on affixation (pdf)