COURSE DESCRIPTION MORPHEME AND SYNTAX Pdf

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course : Morphosyntax

Code : MKK2037

Chs : 2

Semester : 5

Prerequisite : -

Lecturer : Caltira Rosiana, M.Pd

1. Objectives

Upon the compeletion of this course, students are expected to:

a. understand basic morphological and syntactic concepts;

b. be able to observe, describe, and explain morphological and syntactic phenomena; and

c. be able to analyse the surface and underlying structures of words, phrases and clauses and represent them in tree diagrams.

2. Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the fundamentals of English lexical morphology and syntax. It concentrates on the concepts of words, types of words, morphemes, allomorphs, inflections and derivations, word structures, word categories and functions, phrases, kinds of phrases, and the interface between morphology and syntax. This course also gives students knowledge on how to represent the structure of words, phrases, and clauses in tree diagrams.

3. Learning Activities

Learning activities are the combinations of lecturers, discussion, doing exercises, and tests.

4. Media

Teaching media are an LCD projector and a blackboard.

5. Evaluation

Evaluation will be based on the following components:

1) Participation (15%)

2) Assignment (25%)

3) Mid Test (30%

4) Final Test (30%)

To be able to sit in the tests and to allow for their final result to be published, the students are required to meet a minimum of 80% of attendance of the total lectures (This is normative!!!).

6. Course Outline

Sessions	Topics	Sources
1	Introduction to the subject: a) Welcoming remarks b) About the subject and its requirements c) Overview of morphosyntax	Syllabus
2	Morphology: The analysis of word structure	O’Grady et al. (1996) pp. 132-133
3	Morpheme: free and bound Allomorph	O’Grady et al. (1996) pp. 133-135
4	Inflectional and derivational morphemes (1)	Aronoff & Fudeman (2005) pp. 149-170
5	Inflectional and derivational morphemes (2)	Aronoff & Fudeman (2005) pp.103-125
6	Word structure	O’Grady et al. (1996) pp. 135-138
7	Mid-test
8	Word categories & Function	Thomas (1993) pp. 1-18
9	Adverbial Phrase	Thomas (1993) pp. 23-28
10	Prepositional Phrase	Thomas (1993) pp. 29-30
11	Adjective Phrase	Thomas (1993) pp. 31-36
12	Verb Phrase	Thomas (1993) pp. 37-58
13	Noun Phrase	Thomas (1993) pp. 80-99
14	Final Test

7. References

Aronoff, Mark & Kristen Fudeman. 2005. What is Morphology? Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Badudu, Abdul Muis and Herman. 2005. Morfosintaksis. Jakarta: PT. Rineka Cipta.

Huddleston, Rodney and Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2002. A Student’s Introduction to English Grammar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Matthews, P.H. 1979. Morphology: an Introduction to the Theory of Word-Structure. Cambridge: CUP.

O’Grady et al. (eds.) 1996. Contemporary Linguistics: an introduction. New York: Longman.

Thomas, Linda. 1993. Beginning Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.