Geert Evert Booij (; born 1947) is a

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

and emeritus professor of

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguis ...

at the

University of Leiden Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, as a reward to the city of Le ...

. He is credited as the creator of

construction morphology Construction morphology (CM) or construction-dependent morphology is a morphological theory aimed at a better understanding of the grammar of words, as well as the relation between syntax, morphology, and the lexicon. It was introduced by Geert Boo ...

Career

Booij previously taught at the

Vrije Universiteit The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (abbreviated as ''VU Amsterdam'' or simply ''VU'' when in context) is a public research university in Amsterdam, Netherlands, being founded in 1880. The VU Amsterdam is one of two large, publicly funded research ...

and

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

and has been a member of the

National Research Council for Humanities The Dutch Research Council (NWO, Dutch: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek) is the national research council of the Netherlands. NWO funds thousands of top researchers at universities and institutes and steers the course of ...

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 The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...

and an Honorary Member of the

Linguistic Society of America The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: ''Language'', ...

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 ''Morphology'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in linguistic morphology published by the Springer Netherlands since 2006. Its editors-in-chief are Ingo Plag, Olivier Bonami and Ana R. Luís. The previous volumes were published under the t ...

'' (ed.)

References

External links

Personal Website
1947 births Living people Corpus linguists Morphologists Linguists of Dutch Phonologists Grammarians from the Netherlands Leiden University faculty Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam faculty University of Amsterdam faculty Syntacticians Semanticists University of Amsterdam alumni People from Hoogeveen Academic journal editors {{Netherlands-linguist-stub