The reading list will be updated as new readings are assigned. See Sakai [Resources > Readings] for more information. Readings are optional if noted; otherwise, they are required.
I. Introduction to morphological terms and concepts
- Nida, Eugene A. 1949.
Chapter 2, The identification of morphemes. Morphology: The Descriptive Analysis of Words, 2ed, 6-61. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [Optional reading]
- Aronoff, Mark, & Kirsten Fudeman. 2011.
Chapter 1, Thinking about morphology and morphological analysis. What is Morphology?, 2 ed, 1-22. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- Dixon, R.M.W., and Alexandra Aikhenvald. 2002.
Word: A typological framework. In R.M.W. Dixon and Alexandra Aikhenvald (eds.), Word: A Cross-Linguistic Typology, 1-41. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Katamba, Francis, and John Stonham. 2006.
Section 3.7 of Chapter 3, Types of morphemes. Morphology, 42-66 (this excerpt, 58-63). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y. 2007.
Sections 7-10 of Chapter 1, Typological distinctions in word formation. In Timothy Shopen (ed.), Language Typology and Syntactic Description, vol III: Grammatical Categories and the Lexicon, 2ed, 1-65 (this excerpt: 49-64). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Haspelmath, Martin. 2002.
Chapter 4, Inflection and derivation. Understanding Morphology, 60-84. London: Arnold.
- Booij, Geert. 2005. Chapter 4, Compounding. The Grammar of Words, 75-95. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
II. Morphology and its interfaces with syntax and phonology
- Baker, Mark. 1985. The Mirror Principle and morphosyntactic explanation. Linguistic Inquiry 16: 373-415.
- Hyman, Larry. 2003 [sic]. Suffix ordering in Bantu: A morphocentric approach. In Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle (eds.), Yearbook of Morphology 2002, vol. 3, 245-281. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo. 2011.
Cyclicity. In Marc van Oostendorp, Colin J. Ewen, Elizabeth Hume and Keren Rice (eds.),
The Blackwell Companion to Phonology, pp. 2019-2048. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
- McCarthy, John, and Alan Prince. 1996. Prosodic Morphology 1986. Technical Report #32, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, 1996. Available here. [Optional reading]
III. Psycholinguistic evidence for the structure and organization of the lexicon
- Pinker, Steven. 1998.
Words and rules. Lingua 106: 219-242.
- Alegre, Maria, and Peter Gordon. 1999.
Frequency effects and the representational status of regular inflections. Journal of Memory and Language 40: 41-61.
- Maratsos, Michael P. 2000.
More overregularizations after all: New data and discussion on Marcus, Pinker, Ullman, Hollander, Rosen & Xu. Journal of Child Language 27: 183-212. [Optional reading]
- Maslen, Robert J. C., Anna L. Theakston, Elena V. M. Lieven, and Michael Tomasello. 2004.
A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 47: 1319-1333.
- Havas, Viktória, Antoni Rodríguez-Fornells, and Harald Clahsen. 2012.
Brain potentials for derivational morphology: An ERP study of deadjectival nominalizations in Spanish. Brain & Language 120: 332-344.
- Clahsen, Harald, Claudia Felser, Kathleen Neubauer, Mikako Sato, and Renita Silva. 2010. Morphological structure in native and nonnative language processing. Language Learning 60: 21-43.