Morphology
Reading
Group

UCSC; Fall 2022; Dan Brodkin (ddbrodki at ucsc.edu)

Meeting Information:

Time: Monday, 2 PM PST.

Location: The LCR / this zoom link

Fall 2022:
Morphophonology Redux

  1. September 26: Planning Meeting

  2. October 10: Embick 2010, Chapter 2 (A Localist Theory)

  3. October 24: No Meeting

  4. November 7: Bozic 2019: Constraining Long-Distance Allomorphy


Spring 2022:
Allomorphy at the Interface

  1. April 1: Planning

  2. April 8: Kiparsky 2017: The Morphology of the Basque Auxiliary

  3. April 15: Gouskova & Bobaljik 2020: Allomorphy and Vocabulary Insertion

  4. April 22: Gouskova & Bobaljik, Redux

  5. April 29: No Meeting (Conflict: Equity in Linguistics)

  6. May 6: Paster 2006: Phonologcial Conditions on Affixation (Chapter 2 (skip pages 31-75)

  7. May 13: No Meeting (Conflict: Equity in Linguistics)

  8. May 20: Gribanova & Harizanov 2015: Locality and Directionality in Inward-Sensitive Context-Sensitive Allomorphy
    (second reading): Svenonius 2012:     Look Both ways: Outward-looking allomorphy in Icelandic Participles

  9. May 27: Deal & Wolf 2017: Outward-Sensitive Phonologically-Conditioned Allomorphy in Nez Perce

  10. June 3: Presentation

Winter 2022:
Distributed Morphology: Models and Critiques

  1. January 7: Planning

  2. January 14: Spencer 2019: Manufacturing Consent over Distributed Morphology

  3. January 21: Arregi and Nevins 2012: Morphotactics; Introduction

  4. January 28: Arregi and Nevins 2012: Morphotactics, Chapter Two (up to page 80)

  5. February 4: Arregi and Nevins 2012: Morphotactics, Chapter Three (first half)

  6. February 11: Arregi and Nevins 2012: Morphotactics, Chapter Three (second half)

(Due to the syntax search, we'll be on hiatus until the end of the term.)

Fall 2021:
Nominal Structure

  1. October 1: Planning

  2. October 8: Abney 1987: Chapter Two

  3. October 15: Bruening 2020: The Head of the Nominal is N, not D

  4. October 22: Boskovic 2012: On NPs and Clauses

  5. October 29: Boskovic & Sener 2013: The Turkish NP

  6. November 5: Lyutikova & Pereltsvaig 2015: The Tatar DP

  7. November 12: Norris 2018: Nominal Structure in a Language without Articles

  8. November 19: Brugè 2002: The Position of Demonstratives in the Extended Nominal Projection

  9. November 26: Schwarz 2018: Two Types of Definiteness Cross-Linguistically

Spring 2021:
Allomorphy and Suppletion in the Zapotec Verb

  1. March 31: Planning Meeting; Morphological Problems in Zapotec

  2. April 7: Operstein 2017: Suppletion in Zapotec

  3. April 14: Embick 2010 Chapter Two: A Localist Theory (of Allomorphy)

  4. April 21: Choi & Harley 2019: Locality Domains and Morphological Rules

  5. April 27: Matushansky 2006: Head Movement in Linguistic Theory

  6. May 5: Harizanov & Gribanova 2019: Whither Head Movement?

  7. May 12: Uchihara & Gutierrez 2021: Subject and Agentivity in Teotitlán Zapotec

Fall 2020:
Allomorphy and Suppletion

  1. October 12: Embick 2010: Localism vs. Globalism in Distributed Morphology (Chapter 2)

  2. October 19: Embick 2010: Localism vs. Globalism in Distributed Morphology (Chapter 3)

  3. October 26: Choi & Harley 2019: Locality Domains and Morphological Rules

  4. November 2: Bobaljik 2012: Universals in Comparative Morphology (Chapter 3)

  5. November 9: Smith et al. 2019: Case and Number Suppletion in Pronouns

  6. November 16: Merchant 2015: Two Cases of Span-Conditioned Allomorphy

  7. November 23: Caha 2016: Explaining Bobaljik’s Generalization as the Adjacency Generalization

  8. November 30: Toosarvandani 2016: Vocabulary Insertion and Locality: Suppletion in Northern Paiute

  9. December 7: De Clerq & Wyngaerd: Suppletion in Czech Comparatives

  10. December 14: Davis 2019: Case-Driven Plural Suppletion in Buryat