Welcome to the class website for LING 350: The Structure of Words (Spring 2024) at the College of Staten Island! From here, you can access the syllabus, readings, class assignments, and the slides from class.

Opportunity!

Class Meeting

Class meets on Thursdays from 6:40–9:50pm over Zoom.

(The official start time is 6:30, but our livestreams will begin at 6:40 to allow students with in-person classes to get home and log onto Zoom.)

Zoom link: Click here.
Meeting ID: 554 539 7081
Passcode: linguist

Note that class meetings will not be recorded. Your attendance and participation in the meetings is essential. You are strongly encouraged to have your cameras on and to participate from a computer rather than a phone.

Course Description

An introduction to linguistic morphology, the study of word structure and word formation in languages of the world. This course will explore how words can be analyzed into smaller units of meaning and sound, the semantic properties of words, the origin of English words, and how word structure interacts with sound and sentence structure. For English majors and minors, this is designated as a linguistics course.