Construction Morphology
Construction Morphology This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It is an important work for…
Specifikacia Construction Morphology
Construction Morphology
This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical units can be analysed as constructions, as pairings of forms and meanings. It is an important work for morphological theory in particular and for linguistic theory in general. It contributes to current work on the architecture of the grammar, the morphology-syntax interface, the shape and characteristics of the lexicon, and the analysis of grammaticalization phenomena.
Construction grammar refers to the class of linguistic theories that focus on the pairing of form and meaning at different levels of abstraction. Geert Booij applies the insights of construction grammar to morphological theory and the formation of words and lexical phrases. Such work (by William Croft and Adele Goldberg, for example) has tended to focus on syntax or (as in the case of Ray Jackendoff) on the syntax-semantics interface.
Geert Booij offers a characteristically lucid integration of his own and others' work and considers what it reveals about the nature of words and idioms. His book will appeal to professional linguists in all subfields and to graduate students of syntax and morphology.