This book shows how complex words and word-like phrasal lexical
units can be analyzed as constructions, as pairings of forms, and
meanings. 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. It is an important work for
morphological theory in particular and for linguistic theory in
general.
Geert Booij applies the insights of construction grammar to
morphological theory and the formation of words and lexical
phrases. Construction grammar refers to the class of linguistic
theories that focus on the pairing of form and meaning at different
levels of abstraction. 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. 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.
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