Course Name	Analysis of English Words
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Sei-Rang Oh
	Affiliation	Department of English Language and Literature

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

The aim of this course is to provide an introduction to the fundamentals of English morphology. Morphology is the branch of linguistics which deals with the shape and internal structure of words. Morphologists seek to determine what kinds of knowledge speakers of a language need to have in order to use words and have intuitions about them. In this course, we will see how words are analyzed into smaller parts (morphemes) and discuss the rules governing how morphemes combine to form words. We will also be concerned with various ways of word-formation in English.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Main textbook:

Katamba, Francis & John Stonham. 2006. Morphology. 2nd edition. Macmillan. (Ch.1-Ch.6)

Supplementary books:

1. Plag, Ingo. 2003. Word-formation in English. 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press.

2. Harley, Heidi. 2006. English Words: A Linguistic Introduction. Blackwell Publishing.

3. Stockwell, Robert & Donka Minkova. 2001. English Words: History and Structure. Cambridge University Press.

GRADING SCHEME

Midterm exam 35%           Final exam 35%        Quiz 10%          Presentation 10%

Attendance/In-class participation 10%

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: The Subject Matter of Morphology

Week 3: Basics of Word-Structure

Week 4: Types of Morphemes

Week 5: Inflection and Derivation

Week 6: Multiple affixation and Word-Structure

Week 7: Ways of Word-Formation I

Week 8: Review & Mid-term exam

Week 9: Ways of Word-Formation II

Week 10: Productivity in Word-Formation

Week 11: Introducing Lexical Morphology

Week 12: Insights from Lexical Morphology

Week 13: Research Presentations

Week 14: Research Presentations

Week 15: Review & Final Exam

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 055-772-1130 (Humanities Building 101-424); e-mail: seirangoh@gnu.ac.kr