Construction morphology (CM) is a morphological theory aimed at a better understanding of the grammar of words, as well as the relation between

syntax In linguistics, syntax ( ) is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure (constituenc ...

, morphology, and the

lexicon A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word ''lexicon'' derives from Greek word () ...

. Susanne Z. Riehemann developed the theoretical foundations in her masters thesis in 1993, which was later published as Riehemann (1998). She named her approach ''type-based morphology''. It was fully formalized in the framework of

Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar Head-driven phrase structure grammar (HPSG) is a highly lexicalized, constraint-based grammar developed by Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag. It is a type of phrase structure grammar, as opposed to a dependency grammar, and it is the immediate successor t ...

but basically used ideas and concepts that later became popular within

Construction Grammar Construction grammar (often abbreviated CxG) is a family of theories within the field of cognitive linguistics which posit that constructions, or learned pairings of linguistic patterns with meanings, are the fundamental building blocks of human ...

. Geert Booij published work using and extending Riehemann's ideas starting in the 2000s under the name of ''Construction Morphology''.Construction Morphology
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Bibliography of Construction MorphologyHomepage Geert Booij
Linguistic morphology Linguistic theories and hypotheses {{ling-morph-stub

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