{"id":1698,"date":"2010-09-07T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=1698"},"modified":"2010-09-06T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T01:23:20","slug":"course-announcement-24-965-morphology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2010\/09\/07\/course-announcement-24-965-morphology\/","title":{"rendered":"Course announcement: 24.965 Morphology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>24.965 Morphology<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nInstructors: Adam Albright and David Pesetsky<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nMeetings: Monday 2-5pm, 32-D461<BR><br clear='none'\/>\nWeb site (to be populated shortly): <a href=\"http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa10\/24.965\">http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa10\/24.965<\/a><\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Where does morphological structure come from, and why is it realized the way it is?  What (if anything) distinguishes word structure from sentence structure?<br clear='none'\/>\nCould it be claimed that &#8220;morphology is just a rule of syntax&#8221; (filtered<br clear='none'\/>\nthrough some phonological constraints)?  Why do theories of morphology so often posit mechanisms that go beyond what<br clear='none'\/>\nappears necessary in theories of sentence structure?  (That is, why do they so<br clear='none'\/>\noften answer &#8220;no&#8221; to the previous question?)<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Attempting to answer these questions leads us into some of the central problems<br clear='none'\/>\nthat analyses of morphological systems have grappled with:<\/P><\/p>\n<p><OL><br clear='none'\/>\n<LI> To the extent that morphological structure is predictable from syntactic<br clear='none'\/>\nstructure, how? [Topics include: the Mirror Principle and scope-based ordering,<br clear='none'\/>\nin Athapaskan and beyond; nanosyntax]<\/LI><\/p>\n<li> To the extent that morphological structure is constrained in a manner that<br clear='none'\/>\ndoes not directly follow from obvious facts about sentence syntax, what<br clear='none'\/>\naccounts for these effects? [Topics include: templates; phonologically<br clear='none'\/>\nmotivated ordering; level ordering effects, the debate over phases and<br clear='none'\/>\nword-structure, complexity-based ordering]<\/li>\n<li> How do structurally simpler and more complex forms interact?  [Topics<br clear='none'\/>\ninclude: blocking effects (syntax\/morphology interactions, word\/word<br clear='none'\/>\ninteractions, phonologically driven interactions)]<\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI> What accounts for complex relations between feature-specifications and their<br clear='none'\/>\nexponents?  [Topics include: rules of referral, syncretism, fusion, fission,<br clear='none'\/>\nimpoverishment, phonological markedness effects; inflection classes]<\/LI><\/p>\n<p><LI> What accounts for mismatches among phonologically, semantically and purely<br clear='none'\/>\nmorphologically motivated word-structures [Topic: bracketing paradoxes]<\/LI><br clear='none'\/>\n<\/OL><br clear='none'\/>\n<P>The big question underlying the course will be: is there a distinct<br clear='none'\/>\nmorphological grammar, or can morphological phenomena all be understood as<br clear='none'\/>\narising from the interaction of syntax and phonology?<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>Requirements:\tthree in-class presentations, short paper based on one of them<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24.965 Morphology Instructors: Adam Albright and David Pesetsky Meetings: Monday 2-5pm, 32-D461 Web site (to be populated shortly): http:\/\/stellar.mit.edu\/S\/course\/24\/fa10\/24.965 Where does morphological structure come from, and why is it realized the way it is? What (if anything) distinguishes word structure from sentence structure? Could it be claimed that &#8220;morphology is just a rule of syntax&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1698"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1698\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}