LING 105Morphology
Linguistics · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
In linguistics, morphology is study of word structure. Morphological theory seeks to answer questions such as how should words and their component parts (roots, prefixes, suffixes, vowel changes) be classified crosslinguistically? how do speakers store, produce, and process complex words (words with affixes, compounds)? how do speakers know how to produce correct word forms even when they have not previously heard them and how do speakers know that particular words are well-formed or ill-formed? is there principled distinction in traditional division between inflection and derivation? how can we best account for variation in forms that are same (e.g., root in keep/kept even though vowels are different)? can we formulate crosslinguistic generalizations about word structure?
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Winter 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Enforced requisite: course 20.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
LING 105
- LING 20Introduction to Linguistic Analysis
1 direct requisite. The whole upstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
LING 105
- LING 161Language Documentation
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.