Laurie Bauer Explained

Laurie Bauer
Birth Name:	Laurence James Bauer
Birth Date:	1949 8, df=y
Fields:	Morphology, Word formation
Workplaces:	Victoria University of Wellington
Education:	University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Doctoral Advisor:	Duncan McMillan
Academic Advisors:	John Lyons, David Abercrombie, Gill Brown, Keith Brown, John Laver, Jim Miller, John Anderson
Known For:	works on English morphology
Awards:	Royal Society of New Zealand's Humanities medal
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Laurence James Bauer (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]

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.

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. [This 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 and Ingo Plag, Oxford University Press, 2013
• Compounds and Compounding, Cambridge University Press, 2017
• Rethinking Morphology, Edinburgh University Press, 2019

See also

• Peter Hugoe Matthews
• Heinz Giegerich

External links

• Laurie Bauer at Victoria University of Wellington

Notes and References

1. Web site: Interview with Laurie Bauer . www.skase.sk . 12 January 2019.
2. Kenesei . István . Laurie Bauer, English Word-formation (review) . Studies in Language . 1985 . 9 . 3 . 429–438 . 10.1075/sl.9.3.09ken . 21 January 2019 . English.
3. English word-formation: Bauer, Laurie. London: Cambridge University Press, 1982, 311 pp., £7.50 . System . 1 January 1986 . 14 . 3 . 349–353 . 10.1016/0346-251X(86)90032-1 . en . 0346-251X. Kastovsky . Dieter .
4. Chung . Karen Steffen . Morphology Productivity (review) . . 2003 . 48 . 1 . 80–82 . 10.1353/cjl.2004.0005 . 21 January 2019 . en. free .
5. Barddal . Johanna . Morphological Productivity (review) . Language . 16 September 2003 . 79 . 3 . 646 . 10.1353/lan.2003.0146 . en . 1535-0665. 1854/LU-8562308 . free .
6. Rajagopalan . Kanavillil . Introducing linguistic morphology . Word . 18 August 2016 . 62 . 3 . 199–201 . 10.1080/00437956.2016.1208405 .
7. Kaye . Alan S. . Introducing Linguistic Morphology (review) . Language . 23 June 2005 . 81 . 2 . 509–510 . 10.1353/lan.2005.0069 . 21 January 2019 . en . 1535-0665.
8. Twardzisz . Piotr . Book Review: The Oxford reference guide to English morphology . . 9 July 2015 . 43 . 3 . 253–256 . 10.1177/0075424215592228 . en.
9. Zonneveld . Wim . Laurie Bauer,Rochelle Lieber &Ingo Plag,The Oxford reference guide to English morphology.Oxford:Oxford University Press,2013. Pp. x + 691. . . 15 October 2014 . 50 . 3 . 705–712 . 10.1017/S0022226714000292 . en . 0022-2267.
10. ten Hacken . Pius . Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber & Ingo Plag The Oxford reference guide to English morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 704. ISBN 978-0-19-957926-6. . . 26 November 2014 . 19 . 1 . 188–201 . 10.1017/S1360674314000318 . en . 1360-6743.
11. Web site: Laurie Bauer . 12 January 2019.
12. Bauer . L. J. . 1975 . Nominal compounds in Danish, English and French . en.
13. Life of a lame . Te Reo: The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand . November 2018 .