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Geert Booij

Geert Booij

Dutch linguist

Geert Evert Booij (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣeːrd ˈboːi];[1] born 1947) is a Dutch linguist and emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of Leiden. He is credited as the creator of construction morphology.[2][3][4][5][6]

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Career

Booij previously taught at the Vrije Universiteit and University of Amsterdam and has been a member of the National Research Council for Humanities since 1997. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leiden between 2005 and 2007. He is a winner of Humboldt Research Award[7][8] and an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.[9][10]

Books

  • The Phonology of Dutch (The Phonology of the World's Languages), Oxford University Press, 1995.
  • The Morphology of Dutch, Oxford University Press. First edition 2002; second edition 2019.
  • The Grammar of Words: An Introduction to Linguistic Morphology (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford University Press. First edition 2005; second edition 2007; third edition 2012.
  • Construction Morphology (Oxford Linguistics), Oxford University Press, 2010.
  • Yearbook of Morphology (ed.)

References

  1. [1]
    In isolation, Geert is pronounced [ɣeːrt].
  2. [2]
    Bosch, Anna R. K. (2002). "Review of The Syllable: Views and Facts". Journal of Linguistics. 38 (1): 168–172. JSTOR 4176722.
  3. [3]
    "1 Prominence in morphology: The notion of head" (PDF). Retrieved 1 July 2017.
  4. [4]
    Hüning, Matthias; Booij, Geert (1 October 2014). "From compounding to derivation The emergence of derivational affixes through "constructionalization"". Folia Linguistica. 48 (2). doi:10.1515/flin.2014.019. hdl:1887/29966. ISSN 1614-7308. S2CID 147192147. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  5. [5]
    "Review of: The morphology of Dutch, by Geert Booij". SIL International. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  6. [6]
    "Geert Booij". Taalcanon (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  7. [7]
    "Two Minutes with Jaklin Kornfilt NEWS of the College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University". Syracuse University. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  8. [8]
    "Geert Booij". ORCID. Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  9. [9]
    "Geert Booij chosen as Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America". Retrieved 29 June 2017.
  10. [10]
    "Maatschappelijke relevantie Fryske Akademy 'excellent'". Nationale Onderwijsgids. 24 February 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2017.


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