Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is a Canadian

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. He is the author or coauthor of eight books and has papers published on formal syntactic theory and on linguistic aspects of

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. He was born in

Calgary, Alberta Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Canadian Prairies, Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,30 ...

. He is also a teacher of Balkan and

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. 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

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Education

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in Linguistics and

Celtic Studies Celtic studies or Celtology is the academic discipline occupied with the study of any sort of cultural output relating to the Celtic-speaking peoples (i.e. speakers of Celtic languages). This ranges from linguistics, literature and art histor ...

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University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, 1991 *

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in Linguistics and Philosophy:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, 1995

Books

* Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, 1999 (with Sonya Bird, Jason Haugen, and Peter Norquest) * The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, Oxford University Press, 2000 (with

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) * Papers in Honor of Ken Hale (MITELF1), MITWPL, 2000 (with Eloise Jelinek and MaryAnn Willie) * Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Blackwell Publishers, 2002 * Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers, 2003, (with

Heidi Harley Heidi Britton Harley (born September 26, 1969) is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Her areas of specialization are formal syntactic theory, morphology, and lexical semantics. Career Harley was born in Oregon, but was ra ...

and MaryAnn Willie) * Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins Publishers, 2005, (with

and Sheila Dooley) * 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 * Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Third Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 * The Routledge Handbook of Syntax (editor), Routledge, 2014

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