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Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy is a professor at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand where he teaches linguistics. He studied at Oxford, MIT, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, where he gained his PhD. His previous books are Allomorphy in Inflexion, The Evolution of Morphology, Current Morphology and The Origins of Complex Language.

Education
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy has studied at Oxford then proceeded to further his studies in Linguistics at MIT. He then went to study at School of Oriental and African Studies in London which granted hi his PhD, he now works as a professor at the University of Canterbury teaching areas related to his research.

Areas of Research
Despite being a professor, McCarthy has done thorough research into the linguistic field which allowed him to write books on his findings. He has studied these areas which have helped him progress into writing books on his research.


 * Linguistic change
 * Morphology
 * Origin of language
 * Greek and Latin literature
 * Origin of language
 * Greek and Latin literature
 * Greek and Latin literature

Books
The Evolution of Morphology; his book considers the evolution of the grammatical structure of words in the more general contexts of human evolution and the origins of language. The consensus in many fields is that language is well designed for its purpose, and became so either through natural selection or by virtue of non-biological constraints on how language must be structured.

Introduction to English Morphology: Words and Their Structure (2nd edition);What exactly are words? Are they the things that get listed in dictionaries, or are they the basic units of sentence structure? Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy explores the implications of these different approaches to words in English.

The Origins of Complex Language: An Inquiry Into the Evolutionary Beginnings of Sentences, Syllables, and Truth :This book proposes a new theory of the origins of human language ability and presents an original account of the early evolution of language. It explains why humans are the only language-using animals, challenges the assumption that language is a consequence of intelligence, and offers a newer perspective on human uniqueness

Current Morphology: This book aims to provide a thorough and wide-ranging introduction to approaches to morphology in linguistic theory over the last twenty years. This comprehensive survey concentrates not only on the generative linguistic mainstream, but on approaches that are less fashionable or relatively unknown to English-speaking linguists, and highlights recent European, particularly German-speaking research.

Allomorphy in Inflexion (Routledge Revivals): First published in 1987, this book broke new ground in research on inflectional morphology. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of languages, it shows that this was not just a phenomenon left over from obsolete phonological processes but a subject deserving of more respect. The book proposes constraints in three areas: (1) the organisation of inflection class systems; (2) inflectional homonym, or syncretism; (3) the direction of allomorphic conditioning.