Geert Booij

Geert Booij
Booij in 2017
Born	1947 (age 78–79) Hoogeveen, Netherlands
Education	University of Amsterdam (PhD) University of Groningen (MA)
Known for	Construction grammar Construction Morphology Cognitive linguistics Dutch phonology
Awards	Humboldt Research Award (2011)
Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics
Workplaces	University of Leiden (2005–present) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1981–2005) University of Amsterdam (1971–1981)
Thesis	Dutch Morphology: A Study of Word Formation in Generative Grammar (1977)
Website	geertbooij.com

Geert Evert Booij (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣeːrd ˈboːi]; 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.

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 and an Honorary Member of the Linguistic Society of America.

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.)

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External links

• Personal Website

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