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LING 308

Morphology

3 units

Winter 2026

Topics

  • Words
  • Linguistic signs
  • Morphs and morphemes
  • Morphological processes
  • Reading break
  • Inflection
  • Inflection classes
  • Derivation
  • Inflection vs derivation
  • Morphological dependencies
  • Voice

Readings

  • Coursebook in Introductory Morphology (downloadable by chapter from the Ling 308 Canvas site) Haspelmath & Sims, Understanding Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (recommended)
    recommended
Winter 2023

Topics

  • Course business
  • Linguistic signs
  • Lexemes, wordforms, and word families Coursebook
  • Allomorphy
  • More on linguistic signs
  • Morphemes
  • Inflection and inflectional categories
  • Reading break
  • Inflection vs. derivation
  • Morphological processes
  • Inflection and derivation
  • Morphosyntax
  • Rules and word-based analyses
  • Productivity

Readings

  • Coursebook in Introductory Morphology (downloadable by chapter from the Ling 308 eClass site) Haspelmath & Sims, Understanding Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (recommended)
    recommended
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