Three credit hour course; meets 1:25-2:15 p.m., MWF in BH 221.

Fulfills COAS distribution requirement in NMMC/Mathematical Sciences and
Cognition

Prerequisite: G330 with a minimum grade of C-.

No previous background in linguistics assumed. This course introduces students
to German morphology, with emphasis on description and analysis. Morphology is
the branch of linguistics devoted to the study of words. We will consider the
three major areas of German morphology:

(1)  inflection (grammatically determined forms of words: der große
Wagen-ein großer Wagen-die großen Wagen-große Wagen;
singen-sang-gesungen);
(2)  derivation (the creation of new words using devices such as prefixes and
suffixes:  finden-erfinden-Erfinder-Erfindung); and
(3)  compounding (the combination of two or more words to form a single word,
for which German is so famous:  Donaudampfschiffahrtgesellschaft,
Entwicklungsplanungskommissionsvorsitzende(r),
Dauerarbeitslosigkeitsbekämpfungsgesetz).

Students in this course should significantly enlarge their German vocabularies
and gain insights into the rules and principles governing the structure of
words in German.

On Mondays and Wednesdays, students will attend joint G458/558 sessions, where
the instructor will present new material in an informal lecture format. In
connection with the material covered in the Monday/Wednesday sessions,
students will have approximately seven (7) written assignments to hand in, and
there will be a midterm and a final. Friday sessions will assume a workshop
format and will be devoted to the discussion of homework and in-class
exercises designed both to reinforce the descriptive and analytic material and
to encourage vocabulary development. The language of instruction will be
German. Class attendance, preparation, and participation are mandatory.

Texts:
(+) DUDEN DEUTSCHES UNIVERSALWÖRTERBUCH
(+) instructor-generated handouts