Laurie Bauer
Laurence James Bauer is a British linguist and Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington. He is known for his expertise on morphology and word formation. Bauer was an editor of the journal Word Structure. In 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal.
Life
Bauer 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, 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.
Books
- Andersen, Erik & Laurie Bauer 1975. Engelske Udtaleøvelser. With accompanying tapes. Copenhagen: GyldendalThe Grammar of Nominal Compounding with special reference to Danish, English and French, Odense University Press, 1978American English Pronunciation, with J.M. Dienhart, H.H. Hartvigson & L. Kvistgaard Jakobsen, Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1980English Word-Formation, Cambridge University Press, 1983Introducing Linguistic Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 1988Watching English Change, Longman, 1994Vocabulary, Routledge, 1998Morphological Productivity, Cambridge University Press, 2001An Introduction to International Varieties of English, Edinburgh University Press, 2002A Glossary of Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 2004Language Matters, With Janet Holmes and Paul Warren, Palgrave, 2006The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh University Press, 2007. ; Q and Eh. Questions and answers on language with a Kiwi twist, with Dianne Bardsley, Janet Holmes & Paul Warren, Random House, 2011. Beginning Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, Oxford University Press, 2013Compounds and Compounding, Cambridge University Press, 2017Rethinking Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 2019