Class Description - Morphology and Syntax
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2012-02-26

This class deals with selected aspects of English and other languages. It is subdivided into two parts. The goal of the first part of the class is to introduce the basic morphological concepts that are used to describe and explain the internal structure of words. Why can we say book-sell-er-s but not *sell-s-er-book? What is the typical morphological structure of an analytic language? How do synthetic languages realize inflection?

The second part emphasizes all those aspects of English grammar where English is radically different from other languages, e.g. the formal and functional properties of English verbs, subject and object selection, clause internal and external operations.