Laurie Bauer

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Laurie Bauer
Born
Laurence James Bauer

(1949-08-09) 9 August 1949 (age 74)
Education University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Known forworks 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]

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Life

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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