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.^[1][2]

Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy
Born	(1945-08-27) 27 August 1945 (age 80)
Education	School of Oriental and African Studies (PhD)
Alma mater	University of Oxford (BA Hons in Literae Humaniores)
Known for	works on English morphology
Scientific career
Fields	Morphology, Word formation
Institutions	University of Canterbury
Thesis	Constraints on allomorphy in inflexion (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Theodora Bynon, Geoffrey C. Horrocks
Other academic advisors	Paul Kiparsky, Dick Hudson

Books

• Allomorphy in Inflexion. London: Croom Helm. 271pp. 1987. ISBN 0709934831 (With Andrew Carstairs as the named author.) Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013. ISBN 9780415825047, ISBN 9780203694473. (With Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy as the named author.)
• Current Morphology. London: Routledge. 289pp. 1992. ISBN 0415071186, ISBN 0415009987. 2002. ISBN 9781138868410.
• The Origins of Complex Language: An inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260pp. 1999. ISBN 0198238215.
• An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp. 2002.
  • 2nd edition, 2018.
• The Evolution of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp. 2010. ISBN 9780199299782.
• Zeus, Jupiter, Jesus and the Catholic Church: What Good Is a God? Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 150pp. 2021. ISBN 9781527575516.