Andrew Garrett (linguist)

Andrew James Garrett is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
He specializes in Indo-European languages, and the languages of California, especially Yurok.
Garrett received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1990, with a dissertation titled The Syntax of Anatolian Pronominal Clitics. He is a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.
In collaboration with Leanne Hinton, Garrett has worked on a project to digitize many of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages records, which are now available through the California Language Archive.
A 2015 paper co-authored by Garrett was recognized as the Best Linguistics Paper of the Year. Titled "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis support the Indo-European steppe hypothesis,", it elegantly showed that, when methodological errors are corrected, phylogenetic analysis, actually supports the time frame necessary for the steppe hypothesis.
In 2023 Garrett published "," a critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities.
Garrett is married to another professor at Berkeley, Leslie Kurke.

Awards

2007 Distinguished Teaching Award, bestowed by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching