Master Course Linguistics - Alec Marantz May 17, 19 & 21 2010 (UAB)

ALEC MARANTZ

Locality in Morphology: The Domains of Allomorphy and Allosemy

When: May 17, 19 & 21 2010, 15:00-18:00

Where: Sala Actes (B7-056), Facultat de Filosofia i Lletres, UAB

Description of the course:

This course will explore key issues in word structure through an examination of allomorphy –the choice of the form of a morpheme – and allosemy – the choice of the meaning for root of a word. Where in a word can the contextual information relevant to these choices appear and do the same locality domains hold for form and for meaning?
Along with traditional linguistic data, we will consider whether new findings from neurolinguistic experiments might inform the theoretical questions.
Although the topics to be covered are at the forefront of current research in Morphology, the course should be accessible to any postgraduate student with basic knowledge of syntax and phonology.

Key Readings:
Embick, D. 2010. Localism versus Globalism in Morphology and Phonology. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Marantz, A. Phases and Words. 2007. S-H Choe et al., eds., Phases in the Theory of Grammar, Seoul: Dong In, 191-222.
Embick, D. & Marantz, A. 2008. Architecture and Blocking. Linguistic Inquiry, 39:1, 1-53.
Solomyak, O. & Marantz, A. 2009. Evidence for Early Morphological Decomposition in Visual Word Recognition, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, epub ahead of print, July 2009.
Solomyak, O. & Marantz, A. 2009. Lexical access in early stages of visual word processing: a single-trial correlational MEG study of heteronym recognition, Brain and Language, 108.3, 191- 6.