Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (born 27 August 1945) is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the
University of Canterbury
The University of Canterbury ( mi, Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation ''Cantuar.'' or ''Cant.'' for ''Cantuariensis'', the Latin name for Canterbury) is a public research university based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was ...
(Christchurch, New Zealand). He is known for his expertise on
morphology
Morphology, from the Greek and meaning "study of shape", may refer to:
Disciplines
*Morphology (archaeology), study of the shapes or forms of artifacts
*Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...
and
word formation
In linguistics, word formation is an ambiguous term that can refer to either:
* the processes through which words can change (i.e. morphology), or
* the creation of new lexemes in a particular language
Morphological
A common method of word form ...
.
Books
*''Allomorphy in Inflexion.'' London: Croom Helm. 271pp. 1987. (With Andrew Carstairs as the named author.) Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. , . (With Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy as the named author.)
*''Current Morphology.'' London: Routledge. 289pp. 1992. , . 2002. .
*''The Origins of Complex Language: An inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260pp. 1999. .
*''An Introduction to English Morphology''. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp. 2002.
**2nd edition, 2018.
*''The Evolution of Morphology''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp. 2010. .
*''Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church: What Good Is a God?'' Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 150pp. 2021. .
References
External links
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
1945 births
20th-century linguists
21st-century New Zealand linguists
British expatriate academics
English expatriates in New Zealand
Linguists from England
Linguists of English
Living people
Morphologists
Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Alumni of the University of Oxford
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