Elective course:Word formation 3200-M1-PF-SŁZ
Word formation involves the construction of new, more complex words based on existing ones. Many languages have complex word-formation systems. After a short introduction to general issues, the course moves on to specific tasks. These are, for example: searching for derived words in different sources, corpus searches, obtaining corpus data, frequency lists, calculation of morphological productivity, comparative analyses, data cleaning, translation of complex words, implications of derivation for translation, stylometry etc. As a "discussion class", this course has a distinctly oral character. Students are expected to participate in class regularly and actively.
The student’s work/time involvement:
30 hrs. – class attendance
30 hrs. – individual work:
i.e. small research/ class presentation no 1 (5 hrs.); large research/ class presentation no 2 (15 hrs.); literature review (10 hrs.)
If classroom instruction is impossible, the meetings will be conducted by means of distance communication tools, most probably Google Meet and those recommended by the University.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Learning outcomes
Upon completion of the course the student possesses:
- advanced knowledge of word-formation processes and can:
- determine the morphological structure of a word
- differentiate a derived word from a complex (underived) word
- search for derived words in a corpus
- obtain frequency lists
- recalculate raw frequencies into normalized frequencies
- indicate hapax legomena
- calculate morphological productivity
- clean corpus data
- establish translation equivalents for derived words
- identify other ways of translating complex words
- troubleshoot translation problems involving derived words
Assessment criteria
- class attendance checked (2 absences per semester allowed)
- active participation in class
End-of-semester grade.
1st round:
1. class presentation no 1 - 30% of final grade
2. class presentation no 2 - 50% of final grade
3. active participation in class debates - 20% of final grade
2nd round:
the same requirements as in the 1st round
Practical placement
Not applicable.
Bibliography
Bauer, Laurie. 2003. Introducing Linguistic Morphology (2nd revised ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
Szymanek, Bogdan. 1999. Introduction to Morphological Analysis. Warsaw: PWN.
Twardzisz, Piotr. 2010. Patterns of English Word-formation. Warsaw: Dept. of Specialist Languages, University of Warsaw.
Twardzisz, Piotr. 2023. English Complex Words. Exercises in construction and translation. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Selected articles.
Additional information
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