Geert Booij: 2 books
by Geert Booij
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2007
Geert Booij's popular textbook examines how words are formed, compounded, and inflected in different languages. It shows how, when, and why to use methods of morphological analysis and explains how morphology relates to syntax, phonology, and semantics. The author considers the universal characteristics...
Morphosyntactic Change
A Comparative Study of Particles and Prefixes
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2012
Particle verbs (combinations of two words but lexical units) are a notorious problem in linguistics. Is a particle verb like look up one word or two? It has its own entry in dictionaries, as if it is one word, but look and up can be split up in a sentence: we can say He looked the information up and...