Course title
The typology of inflectional
paradigms
Teacher
Matthew Baerman
E-mail: m.baerman@surrey.ac.uk
Postal Address:
Surrey Morphology Group
Dept. of English
Homepage: http://www.defectiveness.surrey.ac.uk/Baerman
Intermediate
(requires a stomach for morphology, but no specialist knowledge)
If
there were always a one-to-one correspondence between form and function,
inflectional paradigms would be boringly epiphenominal
and hardly warrant a course devoted to them. But often enough inflectional
paradigms seem to take on a life of their own. This course explores the variety
of paradigm configurations that are attested in the languages of the world, and
what these tell us about the (ever disputed) status of morphology as an
autonomous component of grammar.
Wednesday:
Inflectional
classes
Thursday: Suppletion,
stem alternations
Friday: Distributed and multiple exponence, periphrasis
Background and
preparatory readings:
Bickel, B. & J.
Nichols. Inflectional morphology. In: T. Shopen (ed.) Language
typology and syntactic description, vol. 3, 169-240.
Haspelmath, M. 2002. Understanding morphology.
Course readings:
(see 'Further readings' for full bibliographic details)
Monday: Carstairs 1984
Tuesday: Albright 2003
Wednesday:
Carstairs-McCarthy 1983
Thursday: Corbett 2007
Friday: Kiparsky
2005
Further readings:
Ackerman,
F., J. Blevins and R. Malouf. 2009. Parts and wholes:
Implicative patterns in inflectional paradigms. In: J. P. Blevins and J.
Blevins (eds) Analogy in grammar: form and acquisition.
Ackerman, F. & G. T.
Stump. Forthcoming. Paradigms and periphrastic
expression: a study in realization-based lexicalism
In: F. Ackerman, J. Blevins &G. T. Stump (eds) Paradigms
and periphrasis. Stanford: CSLI.
Albright,
A. 2003. A quantitative study of Spanish paradigm gaps. In: G. Garding and M. Tsujimura (eds) West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 22, 1-14.
Anderson, S. R. 1992. Syntactically arbitrary inflectional morphology. Yearbook of Morphology
1991.5-19.
Baerman, M. 2007. Morphological
reversals. Journal
of Linguistics 43.1.33-51.
Baerman, M., D. Brown & G. G.
Corbett).2005.
The syntax-morphology interface: a study
of syncretism.
Baerman, M., G. G. Corbett, D. Brown
& A. Hippisley (eds). 2007. Deponency and morphological mismatches.
Blevins, J. 2008. Case and declensional paradigms. In: A. Spencer & A. Malchukov (eds)
The
Bobaljik, J. D. 2002. Syncretism without
paradigms: remarks on Williams 1981, 1994. Yearbook of Morphology
2001.53-85.
Carstairs, A. 1983. Paradigm
economy. Journal of Linguistics 19.115-28.
Carstairs, Andrew. 1984. Outlines of a constraint on syncretism
. Folia
Linguistica 18. 73-85.
Carstairs, A. 1987. Allomorphy in inflection.
Carstairs-McCarthy, A. 1994. Inflection
classes, gender, and the Principle of Contrast. Language 70/4. 737-788.
Corbett, G. G. 2007. Canonical typology, suppletion and
possible words. Language
83.8-42.
Cysouw, M. 2003. The paradigmatic structure of person marking.
Finkel, R. & G. T. Stump.
2007. Principal parts
and morphological typology. Morphology
17.39–75.
Garrett,
A. 2008. Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness.
In: J. Good (ed.) Explaining linguistic
universals: historical convergence and universal grammar, 125-143.
Hetzron, Robert. 1975. Where the grammar
fails. Language 51.859-872.
Joseph,
B. 2009. Greek dialectal evidence for the role of the paradigm in
inflectional change. Morphology
19.45–57.
Kiparsky, P. 2005. Blocking
and periphrasis in inflectional paradigms. Yearbook of morphology 2004. 113-135.
Plank, F. (ed.). 1991. Paradigms:
the economy of inflection.
Stump,
G. T. 2006. Heteroclisis and
paradigm linkage. Language
82, 2.79-322.
Surrey
Morphology Group databases. Available at
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/LIS/SMG/web_resources.htm.
Veselinova, L. 2006. Suppletion in verb paradigms: bits and pieces of the puzzle.