Andrew Carnie

Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is a Canadian linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona. He is the author or coauthor of nine books and has papers published on formal syntactic theory and on linguistic aspects of Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic. From 2010-2012, he 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. From 2013-2022, he worked as the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate College. In that role he founded the University's Graduate Center, established the university's Graduate faculty, significantly increased student diversity, and worked to establish better working conditions and wages for students.

Carnie was born in Calgary, Alberta and is a teacher of Balkan and international folk dance. In 2009, he was named Linguist of the Day by The Linguist List.

Work

The bulk of Carnie's research has been in the fields of syntax, morphology, and phonology. He works primarily on the Celtic Languages, particularly Irish and Scottish Gaelic.

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 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