Construction Morphology

by Booij, Geert

• ISBN13: 9780199571925
• ISBN10: 0199571929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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. Gert 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.

Author Biography

Geert Booij is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Leiden.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations and symbols	p. viii
Figures and Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xii
Morphology and construction grammar	p. 1
Introduction	p. l
Word-based morphology	p. l
Constructions	p. 11
Construction Morphology	p. 16
Multi-word units	p. 19
Inflectional patterns as constructions	p. 22
Outlook	p. 23
The lexicon as a network of relations	p. 25
The hierarchical lexicon	p. 25
Default inheritance	p. 27
Paradigmatic relations	p. 31
Constructional properties	p. 36
Schema unification	p. 41
Embedded productivity	p. 47
A web of words	p. 50
Schemas and subschemas in the lexicon	p. 51
Schemas and subschemas	p. 51
Semantic subgeneralizations require subschemas	p. 55
Synchronic arguments for subschemas: headedness variation in compounding	p. 66
Diachronic arguments for subschemas: routes to affixhood	p. 71
Semantic arguments for constructional schemas	p. 76
Subschemas for allomorphy patterns	p. 84
Analogy or schema?	p. 88
Quasi-Noun Incorporation	p. 94
Morphological and syntactic constructions	p. 94
Forms of noun incorporation	p. 94
Noun + verb combinations in Dutch	p. 97
Quasi-incorporation of bare plural nouns	p. 108
Immobile verbs	p. 112
Quasi-incorporation in Japanese	p. 115
Conclusions	p. 117
Separable complex verbs	p. 118
Complex predicates	p. 118
Dutch separable complex verbs	p. 121
Lexical properties of particle verbs	p. 125
SCVs as instantiations of constructional idioms	p. 130
Preverb incorporation	p. 134
Mismatches between form and meaning	p. 137
Diachrony and grammaticalization	p. 142
Conclusions	p. 145
Progressive constructions	p. 146
Periphrastic progressives	p. 146
The aan het + Infinitive construction	p. 150
Quasi-incorporation	p. 159
Schema unification	p. 163
The periphrastic role of the aan het + INF-construction	p. 165
Grammaticalization	p. 167
Phrasal names	p. 169
Demarcating morphological and syntactic constructs	p. 169
Naming and description	p. 169
A + N combinations as names for concepts	p. 175
Greek A + N combinations	p. 179
Dutch A + N phrases with naming function	p. 183
Syntactic lexical units and word formation	p. 188
Theoretical implications: lexical phrasal constructions	p. 190
Numerals as lexical constructions	p. 193
Numerals: morphology or syntax?	p. 193
Dutch numerals	p. 193
Cardinal numerals	p. 195
Ordinal numerals	p. 205
Fraction numerals	p. 206
Numerals and the architecture of the grammar	p. 210
Construction-dependent morphology	p. 211
Recycling morphology	p. 211
The Definite -s Construction	p. 216
The Partitive -s Construction	p. 223
Constructional idioms with -s	p. 228
Collective constructions	p. 231
Affixes as construction markers	p. 235
Stem allomorphy and morphological relatedness	p. 237
Underlying forms and lexical representations	p. 237
The relation between morphology and phonology	p. 239
Lexical phonological representations	p. 242
The role of 'derived properties' of words	p. 248
Stem allomorphy and relatedness of words	p. 250
Stem allomorph selection	p. 251
Stem allomorphy in the lexicon	p. 253
Taking stock	p. 255
References	p. 260
Index	p. 283
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