Geert Booij Explained

Geert Booij
Birth Date:	1947
Birth Place:	Hoogeveen, Netherlands
Field:	Linguistics
Thesis Title:	Dutch Morphology: A Study of Word Formation in Generative Grammar
Thesis Url:	https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/1102690
Thesis Year:	1977

Geert Evert Booij (pronounced as /nl/; 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.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}

Career

Booij previously taught at the Vrije Universiteit and University of Amsterdam, and he 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^{[6] [7]} and an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.^{[8] [9]}

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.)

External links

• Personal Website

Notes and References

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