Construction of Words

Geert Booij is emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Leiden, and the author of a large number of articles and books on phonology and morphology.  His present research focuses on theories of the architecture of grammar, in particular Construction Morphology. He is a founder and former editor of the journal Morphology and its predecessor, the series Yearbook of Morphology.  He is an honorary member of the Linguistic Society of America.

• Preface.- Introduction.- Geert Booij ‘The Construction of words: Introduction and Overview’.- Part I: Theoretical Issues.- Jeff Good ‘Modeling Signifiers in Constructional Approaches to Morphological Analysis’.- Geert Booij & Jenny Audring ‘Multiple Motivation, Partial Motivation: the role of Output Schemas in Morphology’.- Francesca Masini & Claudio Iacobini ‘Schemas and Discontinuity: the view from Construction Morphology’.- Gabriela Caballero & Sharon Inkelas ‘A Construction-based Approach to Multiple Exponence’.- Ryan Lepic and Corrine Occhino  ‘A Construction Morphology Approach to Sign Language Analysis’.- Neil Cohn ‘Combinatorial Morphology in Visual Languages’.- Part II: Studies of Specific Languages.- Dany Amiot & Delphine Tribout ‘De-adjectival Human nouns in French’.- Giorgio Arcodia & Bianca Basciano ‘The Construction Morphology Analysis of Chinese word Formation’.- Brett Baker ‘Super-complexity and the Status of 'word' in Gunwinyguan Languages of Australia’.- Bozena Cetnarowska ‘Phrasal names in Polish: A+N, N+A and N+N units’.- Stuart Davis and Natsuko Tsujimura ‘Arabic Nonconcatenative Morphology in Construction Morphology’.- Matthias Hüning ‘Foreign word-formation in Construction Morphology: verbs in -ieren in German’.- Natsuko Tsujimura & Stuart Davis ‘Japanese word Formation in Construction Morphology’.- Gerhard Van Huyssteen ‘The hulle and goed Constructions in Afrikaans’.- Part III: Diachronic Case Studies.- Luise Kempf & Stefan Hartmann ‘Schema Unification and Morphological Productivity: A Diachronic Perspective’.- Muriel Norde  & Kristel van Goethem  ‘Debonding and Clipping of Prefixoids in Germanic: Constructionalization or Constructional change?’.- Freek van de Velde ‘Iterated Exaptation’.- Part IV: Psycholinguistic Aspects.- Vsevolod Kapatsinsky ‘Learning Morphological Constructions’.- Pienie Zwitserlood ‘Processing and Representation of Morphological Complexity in Native Language Comprehension and Production’.- Hélène Giraudo & Serena da Maso ‘Morphological Decomposition vs. Construction in Advanced Second Language Learners: Evidence from Different Speakers and Different Perceptive tasks’.

“This book is a valuable resource as it provides new approaches and answers to issues involving word structure in general as well as morphological phenomena in specific languages. … the volume is a unified piece of work in terms of content and formatting. All the articles in the book are formatted in a consistent way. The cited works are all included in the references.” (Saizhu Hu, The Linguist List, linguistlist.org, November, 2018)