Andrew Carnie facts for kids

Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is a Canadian professor who teaches about languages at the University of Arizona. He has written or helped write many books and articles about how languages are built. He especially studies the Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic languages.

Professor Carnie was born in Calgary, Alberta. Besides his work with languages, he also teaches Balkan and international folk dance. In 2009, he was recognized as a "Linguist of the Day" by The Linguist List, a big online resource for language experts.

From 2010 to 2012, he helped lead special programs for graduate students at the University of Arizona. In 2012, he became the temporary Dean of the graduate college. From 2013 to 2022, he was the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate College. In this important role, he started the university's Graduate Center, created the university's Graduate faculty, and worked to make things better for students, including increasing their diversity and improving their working conditions and pay.

Understanding Languages: Linguistics

Most of Professor Carnie's research is in a field called linguistics. Linguistics is the scientific study of language. He focuses on three main areas:

• Syntax: This is about how words are put together to form sentences and phrases. It's like the grammar rules of a language.
• Morphology: This looks at how words are formed, like how prefixes and suffixes change a word's meaning.
• Phonology: This is the study of how sounds are organized and used in a language.

He mostly studies the Celtic languages, especially Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

His Education Journey

Andrew Carnie studied at some well-known universities to become a language expert:

• He earned his Bachelor of Arts (B.A. Hons) degree in Linguistics and Celtic Studies from The University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto in 1991.
• He then went on to get his Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) in Linguistics and Philosophy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.

Books He Has Written

Professor Carnie has written or co-written many books that are used to teach about language. Here are some of them:

• 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 Eithne Guilfoyle)
• 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 and MaryAnn Willie)
• Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins Publishers, 2005, (with Heidi Harley 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
• Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Fourth Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2021

See also

In Spanish: Andrew Carnie para niños