Laurie Bauer | |
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Born | Laurence James Bauer 9 August 1949 |
Education | University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
Known for | works on English morphology |
Awards | Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Morphology, Word formation |
Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
Doctoral advisor | Duncan McMillan |
Other academic advisors | John Lyons, David Abercrombie, Gill Brown, Keith Brown, John Laver, Jim Miller, John Anderson |
Laurence James Bauer FRSNZ (born 9 August 1949) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. [1] He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Bauer was an editor of the journal Word Structure. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal. [11]
Laurie was brought up in Yorkshire, 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" [12] and started teaching in the English Department at Odense University, Denmark. He married Winifred Bauer in 1976. [13]
He's one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language.
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Laurie Bauer | |
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Born | Laurence James Bauer 9 August 1949 |
Education | University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
Known for | works on English morphology |
Awards | Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Morphology, Word formation |
Institutions | Victoria University of Wellington |
Doctoral advisor | Duncan McMillan |
Other academic advisors | John Lyons, David Abercrombie, Gill Brown, Keith Brown, John Laver, Jim Miller, John Anderson |
Laurence James Bauer FRSNZ (born 9 August 1949) is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. [1] He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] Bauer was an editor of the journal Word Structure. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal. [11]
Laurie was brought up in Yorkshire, 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" [12] and started teaching in the English Department at Odense University, Denmark. He married Winifred Bauer in 1976. [13]
He's one of the contributors to The Cambridge grammar of the English language.
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