Andrew James Garrett (born 1961) is a professor of

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at the

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. He specializes in

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, and the languages of

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, especially

Yurok The Yurok (Karuk language: Yurúkvaarar / Yuru Kyara - "downriver Indian; i.e. Yurok Indian") are an Indigenous people from along the Klamath River and Pacific coast, whose homelands are located in present-day California stretching from Trinidad ...

. Garrett received his Ph.D. in linguistics from

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in 1990, with a dissertation entitled ''The Syntax of Anatolian Pronominal Clitics''. He is a fellow of the

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. In collaboration with

Leanne Hinton Leanne Hinton (born 28 September 1941) is an American linguist and emerita professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Education and career Hinton received her PhD in 1977 from UC San Diego, with a dissertation entitle ...

, Garrett has worked on a project to digitize many of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages records, which are now available through the California Language Archive.

Bibliography

* Andrew Garrett, Melissa Stoner, Susan Edwards, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Nicole Myers-Lim, Benjamin W. Porter, Elaine C. Tennant, and Verna Bowie, ''Native American collections in archives, libraries, and museums at the University of California, Berkeley'' (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley, 2019; also available in print at cost via lulu.com) * ''Basic Yurok'' (Berkeley: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, 2014) * Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, and Andrew Garrett, eds., ''Grammatical change: Origins, nature, outcomes'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) * Lisa Conathan, Andrew Garrett, and Juliette Blevins, compilers, ''Preliminary Yurok dictionary'' (Berkeley: Yurok Language Project, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 2005)

References

1961 births Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Linguists from the United States Living people University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty {{US-linguist-stub