Andrew Carnie
Andrew Carnie is a Canadian professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of eight books and has papers published on formal syntactic theory and on linguistic aspects of Scottish Gaelic and the Irish language. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is also a teacher of Balkan and international folk dance. In 2009, he was named as one of the Linguist List's Linguist of the Day. Since 2010, he has worked as the faculty director of the University of Arizona's Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. In August 2012, he was appointed interim Dean of the graduate college.Linguistics
The bulk of Carnie's research has been in the field of syntax.Specializations
- Syntax
- Phrase Structure
- Grammatical Hierarchies
- Case
- Celtic languages
- Modern Irish
- Scottish Gaelic
Education
- B.A. in Linguistics and Celtic Studies: The University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, 1991
- Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995
Books
- Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, 1999
- The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, Oxford University Press, 2000
- Papers in Honor of Ken Hale, MITWPL, 2000
- Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Blackwell Publishers, 2002
- Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers, 2003,
- Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins Publishers, 2005,
- Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Second Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
- Constituent Structure, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Irish Nouns, Oxford University Press, 2008
- Constituent Structure, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2010
- Modern Syntax: A Course Book, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
- Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011
