Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (born 27 August 1945) is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury. He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation.[1][2]

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Born (1945-08-27) 27 August 1945
EducationSchool of Oriental and African Studies (PhD)
Known forworks on English morphology
Scientific career
FieldsMorphology, Word formation
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury
ThesisConstraints on allomorphy in inflexion (1981)
Doctoral advisorTheodora Bynon, Geoffrey C. Horrocks
Other academic advisorsPaul Kiparsky, Dick Hudson

Books
  • The Evolution of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp. 2010
  • An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp. 2002
  • The origins of complex language: an inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260. 1999

References
  1. "Paradigmatics precedes syntagmatics in language evolution?".
  2. "Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Origins of Complex Language. An Inquiry into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth".


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