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.

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 the Yearbook of Morphology (Kluwer).

List of Tables and Figures

viii

Abbreviations and Symbols

ix

Preface

xi

Preliminaries

1

(18)

Introduction

1

(2)

The nature of morphological rules

3

(3)

Paradigmatic word formation

6

(3)

Productivity

9

(4)

Lexicon and lexicalization

13

(5)

Overview of the book

18

(1)

The Inflectional System

19

(67)

Introduction

19

(2)

The inflection of nouns

21

(18)

Number

21

(13)

Possessor marking

34

(2)

Gender

36

(3)

Adjectival inflection

39

(15)

Degree forms

39

(4)

The inflection of prenominal adjectives

43

(7)

The suffix-e as nominalizing suffix

50

(2)

Partitive constructions

52

(2)

Verbal inflection

54

(26)

Finite forms

55

(11)

Periphrasis and aspect

66

(4)

Infinitives and participles

70

(10)

The boundary and interaction between inflection and word formation

80

(6)

Derivation

86

(55)

Introduction

86

(1)

Theoretical preliminaries

86

(24)

Input restrictions

91

(3)

Stratal restrictions

94

(7)

Competition between derivational processes

101

(4)

Derivation and semantics

105

(5)

Prefixation

110

(9)

Verbal prefixes

113

(4)

Nominal prefixes

117

(2)

Suffixation

119

(15)

Verbal suffixes

119

(2)

Nominal suffixes

121

(9)

Adjectival suffixes

130

(3)

Adverbial suffixes

133

(1)

Conversion

134

(7)

Compounding

141

(26)

Introduction

141

(1)

Nominal compounds

142

(11)

The left constituent of nominal compounds

145

(6)

The semantic interpretation of nominal compounds

151

(2)

Adjectival compounds

153

(8)

The semantic interpretation of adjectival compounds

155

(3)

Synthetic compounds

158

(3)

Verbal compounds

161

(4)

Numeral compounds

165

(2)

The Interface of Morphology and Phonology

167

(20)

Introduction

167

(1)

Morphological and prosodic domains

168

(6)

The phonological make-up of affixes

169

(2)

Prosodic gapping

171

(3)

Allomorphy

174

(8)

Affix allomorphy

174

(2)

Stem allomorphy

176

(2)

Allomorphy and paradigmatic relations

178

(4)

Phonological constraints on word formation

182

(5)

The Morphology--Syntax Interface

187

(38)

Introduction

187

(1)

Syntactic valency effects

188

(14)

Deverbal nouns and inheritance

194

(8)

Constructions

202

(2)

Separable complex verbs: syntax or morphology?

204

(21)

The syntactic nature of SCVs

205

(3)

Lexical properties of SCVs

208

(5)

SCVs as constructional idioms

213

(3)

Grammaticalization

216

(4)

SCVs with adjectives and nouns

220

(5)

Conclusions: The Architecture of the Grammar

225

(4)

References

229

(14)

Index of Subjects

243

(5)

Index of Authors

248

(3)

Index of Affixes

251

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