Courses

The course aims to guide students on their research in a structured way and to present professionalization information crucial to success in the field. The course is organized largely around working on the research paper, with the goal of making it a conference-presentable and journal-publishable work. Topics covered include abstracts, publishing, handouts, presentation skills, course design, creating and maintaining a CV, cover letters, webpages, and in general everything that is required for you to successfully compete for jobs in linguistics.

The course aims to guide students on their research in a structured way and to present professionalization information crucial to success in the field. The course is organized largely around working on the research paper, with the goal of making it a conference-presentable and journal-publishable work. Topics covered include abstracts, publishing, handouts, presentation skills, course design, creating and maintaining a CV, cover letters, webpages, and in general everything that is required for you to successfully compete for jobs in linguistics.

The course aims to guide students on their research in a structured way and to present professionalization information crucial to success in the field. The course is organized largely around working on the research paper, with the goal of making it a conference-presentable and journal-publishable work. Topics covered include abstracts, publishing, handouts, presentation skills, course design, creating and maintaining a CV, cover letters, webpages, and in general everything that is required for you to successfully compete for jobs in linguistics.

This course is an advanced graduate seminar on morphological theory, focusing on the topics of nonsuppletive allomorphy and morpheme-specific phonology. Nonsuppletive allomorphy raises interesting questions for morphological theory. One major issue that any account must face is the distinction itself between suppletive and nonsuppletive allomorphy (e.g. "go/went" vs. "sing/sang" in English). The distinction is notoriously difficult to make, which has lead some to get rid of the distinction, at least to some extent, by assimilating nonsuppletive allomorphy to suppletive allomorphy, i.e. in all cases of allomorphy, the allomorphs of a morpheme do not have a common underlying form and must be listed separately. If the distinction is real, however, that raises the question of what the right analysis is. If nonsuppletive allomorphs of a morpheme all have the same underlying form, what types of processes derive the surface forms? In what ways can these processes be characterized as phonological? Can specific morphemes trigger specific phonological processes? Can these triggering effects instead be the result of abstract phonological representations? In this seminar, we'll try to answer these questions by discussing and comparing recent approaches to morpheme-specific phonological phenomena. The topics covered will include recent approaches to infixation, Cophonologies by Phase, Stratal Phonology, Strict CV Phonology, and morphological colors.