Syllabus
Anttila, Raimo. Historical and Comparative Linguistics. CILT6.
Bynon, Theodora. Historical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977.
Durie - Ross (ed.) 1996. The Comparative Method Reviewed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fox, Anthony. 2007. Linguistic Reconstruction (An Introduction to Theory and Method). Oxford (: Oxford University Press).
* Další literatura:
Hock. H. H. 1991. Principles of Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam-New York (: Mouton de Gruyter).
Hale, Mark. 2007. Historical Linguistics. Theory and Methods. Oxford (: Blackwell).
Lass, Roger. Historical Linguistics and Language Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997.
Sihler, Andrew L. Language History, An Introduction, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 191, Amsterdam (: John Benjamins), 2001.
Annotation
This seminar focuses on the phenomenon of suppletion, the phenomenon by which related word forms are built to dissimilar bases (e.g. Czech dobrý ~ lepší, brát ~ vzít or English good ~ better, go ~ went). We will examine treatments of suppletion within the main morphological handbooks and theoretical frameworks, and compare their relative strengths and weaknesses. In line with the ongoing research project “Diachronic typology of suppletion”, we will also analyze suppletion from diachronic as well as synchronic perspectives, with an emphasis on such questions as the origins and (in)stability of suppletion; the distinction, if any, between suppletion and other types of morphological irregularity; and the representation of suppletive relationships in the grammar. Although data will be drawn primarily from Indo-European and Semitic languages, students will be encouraged to explore these and other topics from a maximally crosslinguistic perspective and carry out their own research.
Selected bibliography:
Aronoff, Mark. 1994. Morphology by Itself: Stems and Inflectional Classes. (Linguistic Inquiry Monographs, 22.)
Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press.
Bobaljik, Jonathan David. 2012. Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives, and the
Structure of Words. (Current Studies in Linguistics, 50.) Cambridge, Mass./London: The MIT Press.
Corbett, Greville G. 2007. Canonical typology, suppletion, and possible words. Language 83:1, 8-42.
Haspelmath, Martin and Andrea D. Sims. 2010. Understanding Morphology. 2nd edition. London: Hodder
Education.
Mel’čuk, Igor. 2006. Aspects of the Theory of Morphology. Ed. by David Beck. (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and
Monographs, 146.) Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Veselinova, Ljuba N. 2006. Suppletion in Verb Paradigms: Bits and Pieces of the Puzzle. (Typological Studies in
Language, Vol. 67.) Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.