Laurence James Bauer (born 9 August 1949) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at
Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Zealand.
The university is well kno ...
. He is known for his expertise on
morphology
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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
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* 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 for ...
. Bauer was an editor of the journal ''
Word Structure''. In 2017 he was awarded the
Royal Society of New Zealand
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's Humanities medal.
Life
Laurie was brought up in
Yorkshire
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, where his parents moved when he was six years old. He attended
King James’s Grammar School and was then accepted at Edinburgh in 1967 to do a course in French Language with General Linguistics and Phonetics. In the second year, he started linguistics. Bauer was admitted as a PhD student in October 1972. He finished his PhD in 1975 and started teaching in the English Department at
Odense University
Odense University was a university in Odense, Denmark. It was established in 1966. In 1998, the university was merged with two other institutions to form the University of Southern Denmark. Its campus is now known as University of Southern Denmark ...
, Denmark. He married Winifred Bauer in 1976.
He's one of the contributors to ''
The Cambridge grammar of the English language
''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'' (''CGEL'') is a descriptive grammar of the English language. Its primary authors are Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey K. Pullum. Huddleston was the only author to work on every chapter. It was publ ...
''.
Books
*Andersen, Erik & Laurie Bauer 1975. ''Engelske Udtaleøvelser'' ('English Pronunciation Exercises'). With accompanying tapes. Copenhagen: Gyldendal
* ''The Grammar of Nominal Compounding with special reference to Danish, English and French'', Odense University Press, 1978
* ''American English Pronunciation'', with J.M. Dienhart, H.H. Hartvigson & L. Kvistgaard Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1980
* ''
English Word-Formation'', Cambridge University Press, 1983
* ''
Introducing Linguistic Morphology'', Edinburgh University Press, 1988
* ''Watching English Change'', Longman, 1994
* ''Vocabulary'', Routledge, 1998
* ''
Morphological Productivity'', Cambridge University Press, 2001
* ''An Introduction to International Varieties of English'', Edinburgh University Press, 2002
* ''A Glossary of Morphology'', Edinburgh University Press, 2004
* ''Language Matters'', With Janet Holmes and Paul Warren, Palgrave, 2006
* ''The Linguistic Student's Handbook'', Edinburgh University Press, 2007
* ''Q and Eh. Questions and answers on language with a Kiwi twist'', with Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes & Paul Warren, Random House, 2011.
his book reprinted articles which first appeared in the Dominion Post newspaper from October 2007* ''Beginning Linguistics'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
* ''
The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology'', with
Rochelle Lieber and
Ingo Plag
Ingo Plag (born 2 August 1962) is a German linguist and Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. In 2015 he and co-authors Laurie Bauer and Rochelle Lieber were the recipients of the Linguist ...
, Oxford University Press, 2013
* ''Compounds and Compounding'', Cambridge University Press, 2017
* ''
Rethinking Morphology'', Edinburgh University Press, 2019
See also
*
Peter Hugoe Matthews
Peter Hugoe Matthews, FBA (born 1934) is a British linguist and historian of linguistics. He is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1980†...
*
Heinz Giegerich
References
External links
Laurie Bauer at Victoria University of Wellington
1949 births
Living people
Linguists from England
Phonologists
Morphologists
Phoneticians
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Victoria University of Wellington faculty
Odense University faculty
Linguists of English
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Linguistics journal editors
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