The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morhology

Product Description

Geert Booij's popular textbook examines how words are formed, compounded, and inflected in different languages. It shows how, when, and why to use methods of morphological analysis and explains how morphology relates to syntax, phonology, and semantics. The author considers the universal characteristics of morphology and how these are reflected in the workings of mind. The revised edition has been revised and updated throughout; it has a full glossary and a new chapter on the field's most notorious problem: the status of the word.
'The Grammar of Words by Geert Booij covers a broad range of topics from structural questions to psycholinguistic issues and problems of language change. This introduction to morphology is thorough and accessible and, like other works by this renowned author, especially strong at showing the significance of empirical facts for theoretical reasoning.' Ingo Plag, University of Siegen Product Details

* Amazon Sales Rank: #712368 in Books
* Published on: 2007-12-07
* Original language: English
* Number of items: 1
* Binding: Paperback
* 352 pages

Editorial Reviews

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carefully edited...a well-balanced overview of the major issues in morphology while serving at the same time both a pedagogical and a descriptive purpose in a field in which textbooks have for a long time been rare. AnaDyaz-Negrillo and Salvador Valera Hernandez, English Language and Linguistics This is a solid work, which nevertheless moves along at a brisk pace and points at many further issues that could be fruitfully studied in follow-up work...we can thoroughly recommend this work. The Year's Work in English Studies

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"[The Grammar of Words] is successful in achieving the purpose of providing reinforcement, practice, and training in linguistic description, and developing autonomous thinking. Although The Grammar of Words is presented as an introductory textbook to morphology, it is likely to be cited regularly in research publications. This book offers a well-balanced overview of the major issues in morphology while serving at the dame time both a pedagogical and a descriptive purpose in a field in which textbooks have for a long time been rare." --English Language and Linguistics

About the Author
Geert Booij is Dean of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Leiden. 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 (1995); (with Ariane van Santen), Morfologie: De Woordstructuur van het Nederlands. (Amsterdam University Press, 1995, second edn 1998); (with Ch. Lehmann and J. Mugdan), Morphology: An International Handbook of Inflection and Word Formation. 2 volumes (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2000-2); and The Morphology of Dutch (2002).