Laurence James Bauer (born 9 August 1949) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at
Victoria University of Wellington
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. He is known for his expertise on
morphology
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*Morphology (astronomy), study of the shape of astronomical objects such as nebulae, galaxies, ...
and
word formation
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* the processes through which words can change (i.e. morphology), or
* the creation of new lexemes in a particular language
Morphological
A common method of word form ...
. Bauer was an editor of the journal ''
Word Structure''. In 2017 he was awarded the
Royal Society of New Zealand
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's Humanities medal.
Life
Bauer was brought up in
Yorkshire
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, where his parents moved when he was six years old. He attended
King 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 thesis ''Nominal compounds in Danish, English and French'', and started teaching in the English Department at
Odense University, Denmark. He married Winifred Bauer in 1976.
Bauer is a contributor to ''
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language
''The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language'' (''CamGEL''The abbreviation ''CamGEL'' is less commonly used for the work than is ''CGEL'' (and the authors themselves use ''CGEL'' in their other works), but ''CGEL'' is ambiguous because it has ...
''.
Books
*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. (hardback); (paperback)
* ''Q and Eh. Questions and answers on language with a Kiwi twist'', with Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes & Paul Warren, Random House, 2011.
his 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'', with
Rochelle Lieber
Rochelle Lieber is an American Professor of Linguistics at the University of New Hampshire. She is a linguist known for her work in morphology, the syntax-morphology interface, and morphology and lexical semantics.
Career
After receiving an arti ...
and
Ingo Plag
Ingo Plag (born 2 August 1962) is a German linguist and Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. In 2015 he and co-authors Laurie Bauer and Rochelle Lieber ...
, Oxford University Press, 2013
* ''Compounds and Compounding'', Cambridge University Press, 2017
* ''
Rethinking Morphology'', Edinburgh University Press, 2019
See also
*
Peter Hugoe Matthews
Peter Hugoe Matthews, FBA (10 March 1934 – 7 April 2023) was a British linguist and historian of linguistics. He was a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University o ...
*
Heinz Giegerich
References
External links
Laurie Bauer at Victoria University of Wellington
1949 births
Living people
Linguists from England
Phonologists from the United Kingdom
Morphologists
Phoneticians
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Academic staff of Odense University
Linguists of English
Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand
Linguistics journal editors
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