This volume provides a detailed and comprehensive description of the morphological system of Dutch, and contributes to multiple current debates in linguistic theory. This second edition has been fully revised and updated throughout with expanded coverage, new results, and a new chapter on separable complex verbs.

• 1: Preliminaries


• 2: The inflectional system


• 3: Derivation


• 4: Compounding


• 5: The interface of morphology and phonology


• 6: The interaction between morphology and syntax


• 7: Separable complex verbs


• 8: Morphology and the architecture of grammar

Geert Booij is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Leiden University, having previously held positions at the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and visiting professorships at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, Harvard University, and the Freie Universität Berlin. His research explores theoretical and descriptive issues in morphology, with special focus on the interfaces with phonology, syntax, and semantics. He is one of the founding editors of the book series Yearbook of Morphology, continued as the journal Morphology, and in 2011 he received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for his overall achievements in linguistic research. His previous OUP volumes include The Phonology of Dutch (1999), Construction Morphology (2010), and The Grammar of Words (3rd edn, 2012).