Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (born 27 August 1945) is a linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand). He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation.

Books Allomorphy in Inflexion. London: Croom Helm. 271pp. 1987. (With Andrew Carstairs as the named author.) Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013.. (With Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy as the named author.) Current Morphology. London: Routledge. 289pp. 1992.. 2002. . The Origins of Complex Language: An inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260pp. 1999. . An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp. 2002. 2nd edition, 2018. The Evolution of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp. 2010. . Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church: What Good Is a God? Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 150pp. 2021. .