English morphology - Einzelansicht

This is a seminar for BA-students only.

Morphology is concerned with the systematic relationships between the forms and the meanings of lexemes. When the focus is on different grammatical meanings displayed by systematically related forms of a single lexeme, such as singular vs. plural (dog - dogs, table - tables etc.) or past vs. present tense (fill - filled, praise- praised etc.), it is common to speak of inflectional morphology. When the focus is on different lexical meanings displayed by systematically related forms of different lexemes, such as differences between play and player, teach and teacher etc. or between kind and unkind, faithful and unfaithful etc., it is common to speak of derivational morphology. Since English is rather poor as far as inflectional morphology is concerned, the greatest part of the seminar will be dealing with phenomena that fall within the domain of derivational morphology. We will also be discussing differences between the two major approaches to morphological theorising, the morpheme-based approach and the lexeme-based approach.

Carstairs-McCarthy, Andrew 2002/2018. An introduction to English morphology: Words and their structure. 2nd edn. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Further texts will be supplied in the university library and/or in Moodle.

Registration via WUSEL during the official registration period.

It is highly recommended that students complete module ANG-B1 first.

unbenoteter Studiennachweis: Studium der dem Seminar zugrundeliegenden Texte; Bearbeitung der sich auf diese Texte beziehenden Aufgaben; aktive Beteiligung an den Besprechungen dieser Texte und Aufgaben während der Seminarsitzungen zur Einübung des sprachwissenschaftlichen Argumentierens; Durchführung einer Diskussionsleitung bzw. eines Referates; ggf. schriftlicher Test

Modulprüfung: Seminararbeit ("schriftliche Hausarbeit"); siehe die fachspezifischen Bestimmungen der relevanten Prüfungsordnung.

BA: ANG-F-B3A+B, ANG-G-B3A+B, ANG-H-AB3A+B, ANG-P-AB3A+B