Objectives:

This course is an introduction to linguistic morphology, the area of study traditionally referred to as word-formation. The course introduces and explains linguistic terminology and the theoretical apparatus used to deal with morphological operations. Data will come primarily from English and will be supplemented by data from other languages. Once the course is completed, the students will be able to carry out their own analyses of English and other languages’ word-formation processes.

Contenu:

• Basic notions in linguistic morphology
• Derivation
• Reduplication
• Compounding
• Inflection
• Morphological analysis
• Identifying morphemes
• Allomorphy
• Word-formation rules

References:

1. Booij, G. (2007). The Grammar of Words- An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology (2^nd) (1^st edition 2005). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
2. Bauer, L. (2004). A Glossary of Morphology. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

MORPHOLOGY II

Objectives: Morphology II introduces students to recent developments in morphological theory, with special focus on morphology in Generative linguistics. The course will cover various aspects and theories of morphology. Examples of the theories that will be covered are Lexical Morphology, Prosodic Morphology, Word Syntax and morphology in Optimality Theory. Some aspects that will be of interest include the Lexicalist Hypothesis and the interfaces between morphology and phonology/syntax. The course will focus mainly on the basic skills needed to carry out morphological analysis using the various theories of morphology.

Bibliography:

A- Basic materials:

1. Spencer, A. (1991). Morphological Theory- An Introduction to Word Structure in Generative Grammar. Blackwell, Oxford.
2. Trask, R. L. (1993). A Dictionary of Grammatical Terms in Linguistics. Routledge, London.

B- Further readings:

1. Anderson, S. R. (2006). A-Morphous Morphology. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd edn, Vol. ??, 198-203. Elsevier.
2. Aronoff, M. (1983). A Decade of Morphology and Word Formation. Annual Review of Anthropology 12, 355-75.
3. Booij, G. (2006). Lexical Phonology and Morphology. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd edn, Vol. ??, 94-97. Elsevier.
4. Chomsky, N. (1970). Remarks on Nominalization. In Jacobs, R. A. and P. S. Rosenbaum (eds.), Readings in Transformational Grammar, 184-221. Ginn and Company, Waltham, MA.
5. Embick, D. and R. Noyer (2007). Distributed Morphology and the Syntax-Morphology Interface. In Ramchand G. and C. Reiss (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces, 289-324. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
6. Halle, M. (1973). Prolegomena to a Theory of Word Formation. Linguistic Inquiry 4, 3-16.
7. Jackendoff, R. (1975). Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon. Language 51, 639-671.
8. Lieber, R. (2006). Syntax of Words. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd edn, Vol. ??, 405-408. Elsevier.
9. McCarthy, J. J. (1981). A Prosodic Theory of Nonconcatenative Morphology. Linguistic Inquiry 12, 373-418.
10. McCarthy, J. J. (2006). Prosodic Morphology. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd edn, Vol. ??, 182-190. Elsevier.
11. McCarthy, J. J. (2006). Morphology: Optimality Theory. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd edn, Vol. ??, 308-316. Elsevier.
12. Mohanan, K. P. (1986). The Theory of Lexical Phonology. Reidel, Dordrecht. (Chapter 2).
13. Noyer, R. (2006). Distributed Morphology. In Brown, K. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd edn, Vol. ??, 734-737. Elsevier.
14. Selkirk, E. O. (1982). The Syntax of Words. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. (Chapter 3)

This course focuses on issues in morphology and morpho-phonology. The data analyzed comes from various languages, and students are also introduced to issues in the morphology and morph-phonology of Moroccan languages.

Various approaches are adopted, including the linear and non-linear models of phonology/morphology, as well as the more recent constraint-based model of Optimality Theory.

Objectives:

Social Dialectology aims at introducing students to the correlation between social variables (social class, age, gender…) and linguistic variables (phonological, morphological, syntactic…) in order to determine how language varieties are stratified. Various sociolinguistic concepts and famous studies will be covered. The students will also be introduced to field methods (data collection, field ethics…) and techniques of variationist analysis (based largely on quantitative methods). Along with the Sociology of Language, this course offers a comprehensive coverage of the field of sociolinguistics. After completing the course, students will be able to conduct research in social dialectology.

Contenu:

• Speech communities
• Languages, dialects, and varieties
• Regional dialects; social dialects
• Styles and Registers
• Linguistic variation and social variables: Social class, gender, age, ethnic background...
• Field methods; data collection; the sociolinguistic interview
• Techniques of Variationist analysis
• The variable rule program: theory and practice

References:

1. Wardhaugh, R. (2006). An introduction to sociolinguistics (5^th edition; 1^st edition. 1986). Blackwell, Malden, MA.
2. Tagliamonte, S. A. (2006). Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
3. Llamas C., Mullany L. and P. Stockwell (eds.) (2007). The Routledge Companion to Sociolinguistics. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon.

This seminar is provided for advanced students of morphology. The purpose is to prepare students with basic knowledge in Optimality Theory, phonology and morphology so that they can successfully carry the research work associated with their Master's theses.

Although the course focuses on recent approaches to phonology and morphology, some background knowledge to understand current issues requires surveys of seminal works in the literature, starting from Standard SPE phonology.

CONTENT SUMMARY:

The course consists of three workshops on advanced linguistic morphology, organized around two components, a theoretically-oriented component and a more ‘practical’ one. Two issues of relevant current interest are selected: (i) the root-based vs. word-based approaches to morphology and (ii) morphological gemination. In the practical component, focus is on (i) how to identify researchable issues/topics and (ii) how to write a paper on those issues.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

The course aims at acquainting students with (selected) recent issues in morphology that are relevant to the Moroccan languages. It also aims at providing students with an opportunity to practice their knowledge of morphology and skills in morphological analysis. Students are also shown means and ways of discovering issues and topics for morphology papers and are introduced to writing their research on morphology and ultimately publishing it.

COURSE CONTENT:

1. Practical component: This component comprises two basic subcomponents

• How to identify researchable issues/topics: extensive work on the pronoun system of Moroccan Arabic
• How to write a paper (dissertation, conference paper, and hopefully journal paper): review of a published paper

2. Theoretical component: Two (selected) issues, along with the requisite background and applications to the Moroccan languages (Arabic and Amazigh) are considered in considerable depth:

• Root-based vs. word-based approaches to morphology: the recent debate on the base of derivation in Afroasiatic languages, with applications to Moroccan Arabic
• Morphological gemination: Optimality-theoretic approaches to morphological gemination, including the most recent ones, with application to Moroccan languages.

TEACHING METHOD:

• Before-class readings
• Class discussions
• Workshops: (i) Hands-on data collection; (ii) hands-on data analysis

TEXTBOOK:

No specific textbook; Teacher selected materials:

• Root-based vs. word-based approaches to morphology
  1. Cantineau, J. (1950). Racines et Schèmes. In Mélanges William Marçais, 119-124. Paris : G.-P. Maisonneuve.
  2. Noamane, A. (2018). Morphological Causatives in Moroccan Arabic: Word-based or Root-based? Asinag 13, 217-240.
  3. Prunet, J-F. (2006). External Evidence and the Semitic Root. Morphology 16, 41-67.
  4. Ussishkin, A. (2006). Semitic Morphology: Root-based or Word-based? Morphology 16, 37-40.
  5. Ziani, Z. (2018). Backformation as Root Extraction in Moroccan Arabic Loanwords. Asinag 13, 241-254.
• Morphological gemination
  1. Noamane, A. (2018). Patterns of Gemination in Moroccan Arabic: Issues in Phonology and Morphology- A Constraint-based Analysis. Doctorat dissertation, Mohammed V University in Rabat, FLSH. (Chapter 8)
  2. Samek-Lodovici, V. (1993). A Unified Analysis of Crosslinguistic Morphological Gemination. Proceedings of CONSOLE-1, 1-16.
  3. Zimmermann, E. (2017). Morphological Length and Prosodically Defective Morphemes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

EVALUATION:

• Before-class assignments (readings, data collection/analysis)
• In-class (participation ; contribution to group work)
• Written homework assignments (data collection and analysis; reading reports; paper reviewing)
• End-of-term exam