Laurence James BauerFRSNZ (born 9 August 1949) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics atVictoria University of Wellington.^[1] He is known for his expertise onmorphology andword formation.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]} Bauer was an editor of the journalWord Structure. In 2017 he was awarded theRoyal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal.^[11]

Bauer was brought up inYorkshire, where his parents moved when he was six years old. He attendedKing James's Grammar School and was then accepted at Edinburgh in 1967 to do a course in French language with general linguistics and phonetics. In the second year, he started linguistics. Bauer was admitted as a PhD student in October 1972. He finished his PhD in 1975, presenting the thesisNominal compounds in Danish, English and French,^[12] and started teaching in the English Department atOdense University, Denmark. He married Winifred Bauer in 1976.^[13]

Bauer is a contributor toThe Cambridge Grammar of the English Language.

• Andersen, Erik & Laurie Bauer 1975.Engelske Udtaleøvelser ('English Pronunciation Exercises'). With accompanying tapes. Copenhagen: Gyldendal
• The Grammar of Nominal Compounding with special reference to Danish, English and French, Odense University Press, 1978
• American English Pronunciation, with J.M. Dienhart, H.H. Hartvigson & L. Kvistgaard Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1980
• English Word-Formation, Cambridge University Press, 1983
• Introducing Linguistic Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 1988
• Watching English Change, Longman, 1994
• Vocabulary, Routledge, 1998
• Morphological Productivity, Cambridge University Press, 2001
• An Introduction to International Varieties of English, Edinburgh University Press, 2002
• A Glossary of Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 2004
• Language Matters, With Janet Holmes and Paul Warren, Palgrave, 2006
• The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh University Press, 2007.ISBN 978-0-7486-2758-5 (hardback);ISBN 978-0-7486-2759-2 (paperback)
• Q and Eh. Questions and answers on language with a Kiwi twist, with Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes & Paul Warren, Random House, 2011. [This book reprinted articles which first appeared in the Dominion Post newspaper from October 2007]
• Beginning Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
• The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, withRochelle Lieber andIngo Plag, Oxford University Press, 2013
• Compounds and Compounding, Cambridge University Press, 2017
• Rethinking Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 2019

• Peter Hugoe Matthews
• Heinz Giegerich

• Laurie Bauer at Victoria University of Wellington

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