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English Morphology

Course code

GRA6012.HT

old course code

GRA6012

Course title in Estonian

Inglise keele morfoloogia

Course title in English

English Morphology

ECTS credits

5.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

This is a foundational course in the grammar of English with the focus on morphology. The key topics center on words and their structure, interactions between morphology and syntax, and between morphology and the lexicon.

Brief description of the course

This foundational course provides an in-depth approach to English morphology. The topics covered include the concept of word, word and its parts, bound and free morphemes, ways of classifying word parts, a word and its forms (inflection), regular and irregular inflection; a word and its relatives (derivation); issues related to compounds vs. phrases; word and its structure; productivity (formal and semantic regularity), productivity in compounding; characteristics of Germanic and non-Germanic derivation; fashions in morphology; words in English and in languages generally. Great emphasis is placed on practical excercises which are also assigned as independent work in the course homepage in Moodle.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- knows the relevant technical terminology related to the topics discussed, has a comprehensive overview of English word structure and formation;
- is able to discuss issues related to morphology and identify its interactions between syntax and the lexicon.

Teacher

Merilin Miljan, PhD

The course is a prerequisite

English Syntax (GRA6013.HT)

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