By 11:59pm on Wednesday, December 22:

Obligatory: Submit either the final paper or the final exam.

Optional: I strongly encourage you to submit the extra credit quiz.

By 11:59pm on December 15, submit Blog Post #5/6 (this is one blog post worth 10 points):

If you are doing the final paper: Write the introduction to your final paper. It should be at least 300 words long, and it should introduce your topic. Specify what you will be looking into, and how you will be doing so. Be sure to cite at least two sources.

If you are doing the final exam: Write a 300-word mini-essay about word formation (either derivation or compounding) in slang. How are slang words formed? Find at least 10 slang words, and cite at least two sources. (Citations don’t count towards your word count.)

(Note: This is extended; its original due-date was before class on December 10th.)

Before class on November 19, review chapter 6 in the textbook.

Complete Quiz #4 – our final quiz! – by 11:59pm on Sunday, November 21.

For November 12, read chapter 6 in the textbook, and submit Blog Post #4 by 11:59pm.

For Blog Post #4, identify your topic for the final paper. Introduce the topic, say what you’d like to explore about it, mention any sources you plan on using, and any issues you expect might come up. This should be at least 250 words long.

For October 29th, read chapter 5 in the textbook, and complete Quiz #3.

For October 22nd, review chapter 4 in the textbook, and complete Blog Post #3.

Compounding is popular in food names, with examples including “chicken nuggets,” “ribeye,” and “eggplant parmesan.” As with compound words in general, some food names are endocentric, and some are exocentric.

Please find five compound words that name foods (other than the three listed above), and identify whether they are endocentric or exocentric. There must be at least one of each type. (So 4 endocentric and 1 exocentric, for example, would be okay.)

Then, show the structure for all five words, either in bracket notation or tree notation. (If you choose tree notation, upload your trees as images – click “Add Media,” then select the “Upload files” tab and upload your files. Make sure to click “Insert into post” to include your images in the post.) Don’t forget to select the “Blog Post 3” category for your post.

For October 8th, review chapter 3 in the textbook, and complete Blog Post #2.

This blog post has a few parts to it.

1. Find a category-changing affix that takes verbs as its input and delivers nouns as its output. (If it takes in nouns as well as some other category, that’s fine, just make sure to note it.) Write down the affix, write down the process in bracket notation (like we did in class on 1 October), and write down three examples of the process. Make sure the examples are all verb-to-noun examples.

For example, if the affix were –er, you would write:

-er, [[X]_V er]_N
lead → leader, swim → swimmer, sing → singer

2. Find a category-changing affix that takes nouns as its input and delivers verbs as its output. (If it takes in nouns as well as some other category, that’s fine, just make sure to note it.) Write down the affix, write down the process in bracket notation, and write down three examples of the process. Make sure the examples are all noun-to-verb examples.

For example, if the affix were –ize, you would write:

-ize, [[X]_Y ize]_V where Y=N,A
fossil → fossilize, computer → computerize, hospital → hospitalize

3. Now, try to use the output words you came up with in (1) as the inputs to the process in (2). Are the resulting words well-formed? Are they already-existing words? What seems to work about this process, and what doesn’t? Write a paragraph analyzing your results.

For example, the resulting words from the above examples would be:

leader → leaderize, swimmer → swimmerize, singer → singerize. (If I were really answering this question, I’d put a full paragraph here in response, but I’m just showing how to do the output-input thing correctly, so I’m not writing more.)

Important: Do not use –er or –ize in your answer to this blog post!

For September 17th, read chapter 2 in the textbook, and complete Blog Post 1. Consider the following English words:

• forbid
• forget
• forgive
• forgo
• forswear

What evidence is there for these verbs being complex? What evidence is there for them being simplex? Which do you think they are?

Note that there are good reasons to argue in either direction; I’m more concerned with your argument being morphologically sound and well-reasoned than with just getting the right answer, so be sure to explain your thinking. Minimum 150 words.