Course contents and suggested bibliography

 

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9. Morphological typology and language acquisition

WOLFGANG U. DRESSLER (Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wien)

wolfgang.dressler@univie.ac.at

The course will start with presenting the aims and the program of the course. After a brief history of research, models of morphological typology will be presented, with emphasis on whole-system typologies and methodology. In dealing with typological properties and criteria, the focus will be on morphology, morphophonology and morphosyntax withexcursions into

correlations with syntactic and lexical typology.

After an introduction into research on first-language acquisition of morphology I will proceed with alternating typological characterologies of an adult target morphology with its acquisition. Acquisition data will come predominantly from work done within the "Crosslinguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition". These include Italian, French, Spanish; German, Dutch; Russian, Croatian, Slovene, Polish; Lithuanian; Greek;Finnish, Hungarian; Turkish; Yucateco Maya. Some Georgian, Hebrew and Arabic data might be included. Moreover data from the literature, especially from English will be discussed as well.

Finally typological generalisations about first language acquisition will be derived and conclusions which might be valid for second-language acquisition as well, will be drawn.

Students who would like to have some other language included or prefer emphasis on certain languages cited above, are kindly requested to inform me via e-mail.

Reference works:

Haspelmath, Martin ed. 2001 Language typology and language universals: an international handbook. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.

Slobin, Dan ed. 1985ff The crosslinguistic study of language acquisition. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

Levy, Yonata ed. Other children, other languages. Hillsdale: Erlbaum.

Some publications by Dressler and his research associates:

Bassano, D., I. Maillochon, S. Klampfer & W. Dressler 2001 L'acquisition de la morphologie verbale en francais et en allemand autrichien. Enfance 2001,2. 117-148.

Bittner, D., W. Dressler & M. Kilani-Schoch eds. 2000 First verbs: on the way to mini-paradigms. Berlin: ZAS Papers in Linguistics 18.

Dressler, W. 199.7 Universals, typology and modularity in Natural Morphology. in R.Hickey & S.Puppel eds. 1997 Language History and Linguistic Modelling. Berlin: W. de Gruyter. 1399-1421.

Dressler, W. 1999 Richezza e complessitā morfologica. in L. Vanelli et al. eds. Fonologia e Morfologia dell'Italiano e dei Dialetti d'Italia. Roma: Bulzoni. 587-597.

Dressler, W. 2000 Naturalness. in G.Booij et al. eds. Morphology – an internationalhandbook. I: 288-296. Berlin: W. de Gruyter.

Dressler, W. ed. 1997. Studies in Pre- and Protomorphology. Wien: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Dressler, W. & A. Karpf 1995 The theoretical relevance of pre- and protomorphology in language acquisition. Yearbook of Morphology 1994. 99-122.

Dressler, W., W. Mayerthaler, O. Panagl & W. Wurzel 1987. Leitmotifs in Natural Morphology. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Dziubalska-Kolaczyk, K. ed. 1997 Pre- and Protomorphology in language acquisition. Papers and Studies in Contrastive Linguistics 33.

Gillis, S. ed. 1998. Studies in the acquisition of number and diminutive marking. Antwerp Papers in Linguistics 95.

Poechtrager, M., C.Bodō, T.Schweiger & W.Dressler 1998 On some inflectional properties of the agglutinating type as illsutrated from Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish inflection. Wiener linguistische Gazette 62-63. 57-92.

Voeikova, M. & W.Dressler eds. 2002 Pre- and Protomorphology. München: Lincom.

 

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