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

Specializations

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

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

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
• Irish Nouns, Oxford University Press, 2008