CJBB188 Morphosyntactic Seminar: At the Roots

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2017
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Anton Poludněv (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Jaroslava Vybíralová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 6. 11. 14:10–15:45 B2.24, Mon 13. 11. 14:10–15:45 B2.24, Mon 20. 11. 14:10–15:45 B2.24, Mon 27. 11. 14:10–15:45 B2.24, Mon 4. 12. 14:10–15:45 B2.24
Prerequisites
Passive knowledge of English
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 40 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/40, only registered: 0/40, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/40
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Course objectives
The following questions will be discussed during the seminars. Are root morphemes distinct from affixes? If so, what are their unique properties and how should be the roots represented in a theory? At the end of the seminar, the students will be able to differentiate between the lexicalist and transformationalist approaches to the generative grammar. They will also acquire knowledge of how the modularity hypothesis can be implemented into a theory. The communication between the lexicon and the morphosyntax will be emphasized
Syllabus
  • The seminar intends to bring up a discussion on roots from the perspective of different research programs: nanosyntax, distributed morphology, minimalism. Each of the theories is represented by a talk of a particular speaker.
  • All talks take place from 14:10 till 15:45 on Mondays in November 2017.
  • Venue: class B2.24 (Arne Nováka 1)
  • 6 November: Mgr. Pavel Caha, Ph.D. (Masaryk University)
  • 13 November: Prof. Joseph Embley Emonds, Ph.D. (Palacký University)
  • 20 November: Jeffrey Keith Parrott, Ph.D. (Palacký University)
  • 4 December: colloquium with Mgr. Anton Poludněv (see below for details)
Literature
    recommended literature
  • CAHA, Pavel. Explaining the structure of case paradigms by the mechanisms of Nanosyntax. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. Springer Netherlands, 2013, vol. 31, No 4, p. 1015-1066, 51 pp. ISSN 0167-806X. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-013-9206-8. URL info
  • EMBICK, D. & R. NOYER (2007). Distributed Morphology and the Syntax-Morphology Interface. In Ramchand, G. & Ch. Reiss (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of Linguistic Interfaces. Oxford : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-924745-5. pp. 289-324.
  • EMONDS, J. E. (2004): Organizace lexikonu. In: Hladká, Z. – Karlík, P. (eds.): Čeština – univerzália a specifika 5. Praha : Nakladatelství Lidové noviny. ISBN 80-7106-659-1.
  • EMONDS, Joseph Embley and Phillip SPAELTI. How much should we Distribute Morphology? In Theoretical and AppliedLinguistics at Kobe Shoin 9. Kobe Shoin: Kobe Shoin, 2006, 24 pp. ISSN 1343-4535. info
  • PARROTT, J. (2009). Danish Vestigial Case and the Acquisition of Vocabulary in Distributed Morphology. Biolinguistics, Vol. 3, No 2-3. Available only online.
  • STARKE, M. (2011). Towards an elegant solution to language variation : Variation reduces to the size of lexically stored trees. Available only online.
Teaching methods
Seminars & final colloquium
Assessment methods
By 27 November 2017 at the latest, a one-page final paper (in English) should be delivered to A. Poludněv. In the paper, the students recap the seminars. Particularly, they need to address the questions mentioned above. Given each particular theory, are root morphemes distinct from affixes? If so, what are their unique properties and how are the roots represented in the theory? If not, which principle of the theory allows such a statement? On 4 December 2017, there will take place a colloquium where the final papers will be discussed.
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
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