Construction Morphology

Geert Booij has been Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leiden since 2005, and a former Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He was previously Professor of General Linguistics and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Free University of Amsterdam. His books include The Phonology of Dutch (OUP, 1995); with Ariane van Santen, Morfologie: De Woordstructuur van het Nederlands (Amsterdam University Press, 1995, second edn 1998); with Ch. Lehmann and J. Mugdan (eds.), Morphology: An International Handbook of Inflection and Word Formation. 2 volumes (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000-2); The Morphology of Dutch (OUP, 2002), and The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology (OUP, 2005; 2nd edn 2007). He is one of the founders and editors of the Yearbook of Morphology (1988-2005) and its successor, the journal Morphology.

• 1. Morphology and Construction Grammar ; 2. The Lexicon as a Network of Relations ; 3. Schemas and Subschemas in the Lexicon ; 4. Quasi-noun Incorporation ; 5. Separable Complex Verbs ; 6. Progressive Constructions ; 7. Phrasal Names ; 8. Numerals as Lexical Constructions ; 9. Construction-Dependent Morphology ; 10. Stem Allomorphy and Morphological Relatedness ; 11. Taking Stock ; References ; Index

This book provides an extremely readable and fascinating exploration of how insights from construction grammar help solve a wide range of puzzling issues in theoretical morphology. The new and surprisingly simple theoretical perspective offered by Geert Booij on how morphological structure can be accounted for makes this a landmark study that will be of interest not only to morphologists and syntacticians, but also to corpus linguists, psycholinguists, and other scholars working in related areas of cognitive science.