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Andrew Carnie (born April 19, 1969) is a Canadianlinguist and professor oflinguistics at theUniversity of Arizona.^[1] He is the author or coauthor of nine books and has papers published on formalsyntactic theory and on linguistic aspects ofScottish Gaelic andIrish Gaelic. From 2010-2012, he worked as the faculty director of theUniversity of Arizona's Graduate Interdisciplinary Programs. In August 2012, he was appointed interimDean of the graduate college. From 2013-2022, he worked as the Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Dean of the Graduate College. In that role he founded the University's Graduate Center, established the university's Graduate faculty, significantly increased student diversity, and worked to establish better working conditions and wages for students.

Carnie was born inCalgary, Alberta and is a teacher of Balkan andinternational folk dance. In 2009, he was named Linguist of the Day byThe Linguist List.^[2]

The bulk of Carnie's research has been in the fields ofsyntax,morphology, andphonology. He works primarily on the Celtic Languages, particularly Irish and Scottish Gaelic.^[3]

• Proceedings of the 18th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics, Cascadilla Press, 1999 (withSonya Bird, Jason Haugen, andPeter Norquest)^[4]
• The Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, Oxford University Press, 2000 (withEithne Guilfoyle)^[5]
• Papers in Honor of Ken Hale (MITELF1), MITWPL, 2000 (with Eloise Jelinek and MaryAnn Willie)^[6]
• Syntax: A Generative Introduction, Blackwell Publishers, 2002^[7]
• Formal Approaches to Function: In honor of Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishers, 2003, (withHeidi Harley and MaryAnn Willie)^[8]
• Verb First: On the Syntax of Verb Initial Languages, John Benjamins Publishers, 2005, (withHeidi Harley and Sheila Dooley)^[9]
• Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Second Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
• Constituent Structure, Oxford University Press, 2008^[10]
• Irish Nouns, Oxford University Press, 2008^[11]
• Constituent Structure, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 2010
• Modern Syntax: A Course Book, Cambridge University Press, 2011.
• Formal Approaches to Celtic Linguistics. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011
• Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Third Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013^[12]
• The Routledge Handbook of Syntax (editor), Routledge, 2014^[12]
• Syntax: A Generative Introduction: Fourth Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2021^[13]

• Personal homepage

• 1969 births
• Linguists from Canada
• Celtic studies scholars
• Living people
• MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
• Academics from Calgary
• Syntacticians
• University of Arizona faculty
• University of Toronto alumni

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