Construction 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

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 ofMorphology (1988-2005) and its successor, the journal Morphology.

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. R Harald Baayen, University of Alberta Geert Booij's Construction Morphology is a revealing synthesis of insights from Construction Grammar, grammaticalization theory, Simpler Syntax, and psycholinguistics... This is a major contribution not only to morphology but to an overarching theory of the architecture of language. Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University At long last, the theory of Construction Grammar is accessible to morphologists, thanks to Geert Booij. This concise, thorough introduction to Construction Morphology is a tour de force covering the essential elements and arguments for the theory, as well as presenting a wide range of new data. Phenomena which could be shoehorned only crudely into past theoretical models of morphology receive insightful analyses. This book should be an essential part of any graduate course in morphology and belongs on the bookshelf of every morphologist. Sharon Inkelas, University of California at Berkeley Booij's Construction Morphology should be required reading for any linguist who wants to understand how words work. This brilliant book is broadly informed, rich with deep insights, and chock-full of great examples. Adele Goldberg, Princeton University