COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZGÜN KOŞANER

Offered to

Linguistics

Course Objective

Aims to make students use their knowledge in morphology, analyse data from various languages and acquire basic research skills in morphology.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Recognize morphological categories
2   Define the relation of morphology to phonology and syntax
3   Recognize morphology tags used in corpus linguistics
4   Tagging a morphological data set in line with international tagging standards

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Morphological Analysis
2 Approaches in Morphological Analysis
3 Methods in Morphological Analysis
4 Morphology Phonology Interface
5 Morphology Syntax Interface
6 Morphology and Argument Structure
7 Examples of Morphological Analysis
8 Mid-term
9 Inflection
10 Derivation
11 Tags used in morphological analyses: POS tags
12 Tags used in morphological analyses: Morphological tags
13 Morphological tagging: methods and software
14 Morphological tagging: implementation
15 General Review
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Haspelmath, M. (2002). Understanding Morphology. USA: Oxford University Press.

Supplementary Book(s):
Langacker, R. W. (1972). Fundamentals of Linguistic Analysis. USA:H.B.J.
Matthews, P. (1991) Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Exercises on linguistic data

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Learning outcomes 1 and 2 and 5 will be evaluated via the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams.
2. Learning outcomes 3 and 4 will be evaluated via data-based questions asked in the mid-term and final exams and homework assignments

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 1- 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2. 2- Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3. 3- Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0232 301 86 33
FACULTY OF LETTERS DEPARTMENT OF LINGUISTICS
C BLOCK-C157
ozgun.kosaner@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

EVERY MONDAY : 12:00-12:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 12 12
Preparation for Final Exam 1 14 14
Preparing Individual Assignments 1 16 16
Other 1 13 13
Final 1 1,5 2
Mid-term 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 153

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.155555
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45

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