COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MORPHOLOGICAL THEORIES I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 5085 MORPHOLOGICAL THEORIES I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ÖZGE CAN ERDOĞAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

It is aimed to teach the flexional and derivational features (bound/unbound, inflexional), to identify the word types and to comprehend the sentence structure and to realise the ways/methods of neologism to student. Moreover it is aimed for the students to understand the flexional and derivational features, sentence construction of Turkish and by working on samples and reporting them, to identify the stems, affixes of Turkish and evaluate the produced language element and to find the Turkish equivalents of the foreign words by using the acquired knowledge.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Realise the basic concepts of Morphology
2   Explain the relationship between morphology and linguistics by examples
3   Create an outline of a morphological study
4   Specify the sentences structures, flexional and derivational features, the word types of the languages (specifically Turkish)
5   Derive/Produce new word in Turkish
6   Evaluate and criticise a morphological study
7   It is expected from a student to hold a linguistic morphological analysis with the help of a given data

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The definition of morphology, Introduction to morphology, bound/unbound morphemes, inflexional and derivational morphemes. Allomorphs
2 Words and phrases. Word types and word formation methods
3 Morphophonetics, morphosyntax. Morphological typology. Universals and the concept of gloss
4 Bound and unbound morphemes in Turkish. The word structure of Turkish. Flexions and derivations in Turkish.
5 The order of the mophemes in Turkish. Word formation process in Turkish. The morphological categories in Turkish.
6 Word classes and affixes in Turkish.
7 Recent and contemporary approaches in morphology
8 The morphological analysis of the languages of different language families.
9 Morphological analysis that aims to identify the morphological differences between Turkish and the other languages
10 Creating an artificial language I
11 Creating an artificial language II
12 Creating an artificial language III
13 Creating an artificial language IV
14 Creating an artificial language V

Recomended or Required Reading

Greenberg, J.H. (1963). Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the
order of meaningful elements . J.H. Greenberg. (haz.) Universals of Language.
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Haspelmath, M. (2002). Understanding Morphology. USA: Oxford University Press.
Katamba, F. (1993) Morphology. GB: Macmillan Press.
Göksel, A. & Kerlake, C. (2005). Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar. London and New York:
Routledge.
Kornfilt, J. (1997). Turkish. London: Routledge.
Langacker, R. W. (1972). Fundamentals of Linguistic Analysis. USA:H.B.J.
Matthews, P. (1991). Morphology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Spencer, A. (1998). Morphological Theory. UK & Cambridge : Blackwell.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Question & Answer
4. Debate

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-7: Will be evaluated with the help of midterm and final exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance to the 70% of the courses is compulsory.
2. Not attending to the lectures will not be accepted as an excuse for late/off-deadline delivery of the assignments
3. Attendance to the midterm, assignments and final exams will be taken into consideration in evaluation

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Özge CAN
9 Eylul Universitesi, Edebiyat Fakültesi, Dilbilim Bölümü, C
blok, No : 154 Tınaztepe/Buca Izmir
Tlf : 0 232 301 86 33

Office Hours

Will be announced according to the syllabus and timetable/schedule of the term

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 7 3 21
Case study 7 3 21
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Project Preparation 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Reading 3 10 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 195

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1554
LO.2554
LO.3554
LO.4554
LO.5554
LO.6554
LO.7554

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