The Morphology of Dutch [Paperback]

This book supplies the need for an authoritative account of the morphology of Dutch in English and at the same time will make an important contribution to current theoretical discussions of word formation; the interactions between morphology, syntax, semantics, and phonology; and morphological change. The author is the leading scholar in the field.

1. Preliminaries
2. The Inflectional System
3. Derivation
4. Compounding
5. The Interface of Morphology and Phonology
6. The Morphology-Syntax Interface
7. Conclusions: The Architecture of the Grammar

Booij here makes accessible to the general linguist the work that he and his colleagues have been doing on Dutch morphology for twenty-five years. This book is a gold mine, both for those who know the subject andfor those who are new to it. As an up-to-date overview of the morphology of a single major language, it is unsurpassed. --Mark Aronoff, SUNY Stony Brook

Geert Booij is Professor of General Linguistics at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, and Dean of the Faculty of Arts. He was previously Associate Professor in Dutch Linguistics at the University of Amsterdam. He has been a member of the National Research Council for Humanities since 1997, and is the founder and editor of theYearbook of Morphology(Kluwer).