LING-402 Words and Language Structure (3)

This course provides familiarity with various morphological systems that occur in world languages, and examines topics that arise from looking at the shape of words. Students explore what a word is; the meaning of any linguistic unit between two spaces in mental grammar; the connection between morphology and phonology as well as words to syntax and semantics. Student also consider whether deeper principles underly the basic structure and shape of words, and whether these principles are related to what happens in language as a whole. By analyzing morphological patterns in different languages, they understand important theoretical issues connected with morphology and their implication for linguistic theory. Crosslist: LING-602. Prerequisite/Concurrent: TESL-400.