Language & Information Lab.

Morphology Course (second part)

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General Information

In the framework of the project "Word Formation as a Structuring Device of the English and Italian Lexicons: A Large-Scale Exploration " a historical introduction to morphological theorizing was organized, given by Pius ten Hacken . The first part took place on 17-18 November 2000. The second part, covering generative morphology in the 1970s and early 1980s took place on 19-20 January 2001. This page gives access to the slide presentations of the second part. The present version of this page is preliminary.

2. Generative Morphology in the 1970s and early 1980s

The course consisted of a presentation of the main points of a selection of important publications. The selection is necessarily subjective, but certainly not arbitrary. Please click on the number to see the slide presentation. Some of the authors are linked to their personal or department homepages.
 
 
1 Introduction
2 Halle, Morris (1973), 'Prolegomena to a Theory of Word Formation', Linguistic Inquiry 4:3-16.
3 Jackendoff, Ray S. (1975), 'Morphological and Semantic Regularities in the Lexicon', Language 51:639-671.
4 Aronoff, Mark H. (1976), Word Formation in Generative Grammar, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press. (Ph.D. 1974)
5 Siegel, Dorothy (1979), Topics in English Morphology , New York: Garland. (Ph.D. 1974)
6 Roeper, Thomas & Siegel, Muffy (1978), 'A Lexical Transformation for Verbal Compounds', Linguistic Inquiry 9:199-260.
7 Allen, Margaret R. (1978), Morphological Investigations , Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Connecticut.
8 Lieber, Rochelle (1981), On the Organization of the Lexicon , Bloomington (Ind.) Indiana University Linguistics Club. 
(Ph.D. 1980; New York: Garland, 1990)
9 Williams, Edwin (1981), 'On the notions Lexically related and Head of a Word', Linguistic Inquiry 12:245-274.
10 Selkirk, Elisabeth O. (1982), The Syntax of Words, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press.
11 Anderson, Stephen R . (1982), 'Where’s Morphology?', Linguistic Inquiry 13:571-612.
12 Trends and Issues

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