Andrew Carnie

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Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of seven books, and has several papers published on formal syntactic theory and on the lingustic aspects of the Irish language. He was born in Calgary, Alberta. He is also a well-known teacher of Balkan and international folk dance.

[edit] Specializations

• Syntax
• Phrase Structure
• Grammatical Hierarchies
• Case
• Celtic languages
• Modern Irish

[edit] Education

• B.A. (Hons) in Linguistics and Celtic Studies: The University of St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto, 1991
• Ph.D. in Linguistics and Philosophy: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995

[edit] External links

• Personal homepage
• 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)
• Constituent Structure, Oxford University Press, 2008