Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Authored Books

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2010) The Evolution of Morphology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 272pp.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2002) An Introduction to English Morphology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 151pp.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1999) The origins of complex language: an inquiry into the evolutionary beginnings of sentences, syllables and truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 260.

Chapters

• Carstairs-McCarthy AD. (2017) Origins of language. In Aronoff M; Rees-Miller J (Ed.), The Handbook of Linguistics (2nd ed.): 3-21.John Wiley & Sons.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2012) The evolution of morphology. In Tallerman M; Gibson K (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution: 435-441. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2012) The evolutionary relevance of more and less complex forms of language. In Tallerman M; Gibson KR (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Language Evolution: 469-478. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Carstairs-McCarthy AD. (2011) Learning phonology as a way to learn how theories are improved. In Kuiper K (Ed.), Teaching Linguistics: Reflections on Practice: 13-26. London: Equinox.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2009) What is linguistics? In Gregová R; Körvélyessy L (Ed.), Introduction to Linguistics: A Practical Coursebook: 3-11. Prešov: Slovacontact.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2008) Poor design features in language as clues to its prehistory. In Laks B (Ed.), Origin and Evolution of Languages: Approaches, Models, Paradigms: 63-78. London: Equinox.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2006) Affixation. In Brown K (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.): 83-88. Oxford: Elsevier.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2006) Internal modification. In Brown K (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd ed.): 752-755. Oxford: Elsevier.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2005) Affixes, stems and allomorphic conditioning in paradigm function morphology. In Booij G; van Marle J (Ed.), Yearbook of Morphology 2005: 253-281. Dordrecht: Springer.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2005) Basic terminology. In Stekauer P; Lieber R (Ed.), Handbook of Word-Formation: 5-23. Dordrecht: Springer.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2005) The Evolutionary Origin of Morphology. In Tallerman M (Ed.), Language Origins: Perspectives on Evolution: 166-184. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2005) The link between sentences and 'assertion': An Evolutionary Accident? In Elugardo R; Stainton R (Ed.), Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech: 149-162. Dordrecht: Springer.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2003) Paradigm economy. In Katamba F (Ed.), Morphology: Critical Concepts (Vol. 2: Morphology: primes, phenomena and processes) (1st ed.) London: Routledge.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2001) Umlaut as signans and signatum: synchronic and diachronic aspects. In Booij G; van Marle J (Ed.), Yearbook of Morphology 1999: 1-23. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Category and feature. In Booij G; Lehmann C (Ed.), Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation: 264-272. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Inflection classes. In Booij G; Lehmann C (Ed.), Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation: 630-637. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Lexeme, word-form, paradigm. In Booij G; Lehmann C (Ed.), Morphology: A Handbook on Inflection and Word Formation: 595-607. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Morphology, biuniqueness and language evolution. In Schaner-Wolles; Chris; Rennison; John R; Neubarth; Friedrich (Ed.), Naturally! Linguistic Studies in Honour of Wolfgang Ulrich Dressler Presented on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday: 65-72. Turin: Rosenberg & Sellier.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Paradigm structure conditions in affixal and nonaffixal inflection. In Bittner; Andreas; Bittner; Dagmar; Köpcke; Klaus-Michael (Ed.), Angemessene Strukturen: Systemorganisation in Phonologie, Morphologie und Syntax: 79-89. Hildesheim: Olms.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) The distinction between sentences and noun phrases: an impediment to language evolution? In Knight C; Studdert-Kennedy M; Hurford JR (Ed.), The Evolutionary Emergence of Language: Social Function and the Origins of Linguistic Form: 248-263. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Carstairs-McCarthy Andrew. (2000) Origins of language. In Aronoff M; Rees-Miller J (Ed.), The Handbook of Linguistics: 1-18. Oxford: Blackwell.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1998) Comments on the paper by Noyer. In Lapointe S; Brentari D; Farrell P (Ed.), Morphology and Its Relation to Phonology and Syntax (1st ed.): 286-301. Stanford: CSLI Publications.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1998) How lexical semantics constrains inflectional allomorphy. In Booij G; van Marle J (Ed.), Yearbook of Morphology 1997: 1-24. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1998) Paradigmatic structure: inflectional paradigms and morphological classes. In Spencer A; Zwicky A (Ed.), The Handbook of Morphology: 322-334. Oxford: Blackwell.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1998) Phonological constraints on morphological rules. In Spencer A; Zwicky A (Ed.), The Handbook of Morphology: 144-148. Oxford: Blackwell.

Journal Articles

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2016) What can linguistic typology contribute to research on language evolution? Linguistic Typology 20(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2016-0028.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2015) Does Aeneas Violate the Truce in Aeneid 11? The Classical Quarterly 65(2): 704-713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0009838815000191.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2014) Affixes and stem alternants in Latvian nouns: implications for inflectional theory. Baltic Linguistics 5: 59-80.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2008) System-congruity and violable constraints in German weak declension. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 26(4): 775-793. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-008-9055-z.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2007) Language evolution: What linguists can contribute. Lingua 117(3): 503-509.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2007) Learning phonology as a way to learn how theories are improved. Te Reo: Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand 50: 17-32.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2003) A shrug is not a sentence. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26(2): 215.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2003) Directionality and locality in allomorphy: a response to Adger, Béjar and Harbour. Transactions of the Philological Society 101(1): 117-124.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2003) What proper names, and their absence, do not demonstrate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26(3): 288-289.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2001) ASL 'syllables' and language evolution: a response to Uriagereka. Language 77: 343-349.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2001) Grammatically conditioned allomorphy, paradigm structure and the Ancestry Contraint. Transactions of the Philogical Society 99: 223-245.

• Cameron-Faulkner., Thea., Carstairs-McCarthy. and Andrew. (2000) Stem alternants as morphological signata: evidence from blur avoidance in Polish nouns. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 18: 813-835.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Broca's area and language evolution. (Peer comment on a paper by Grodzinsky). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 23: 28-29.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2000) Précis of The Origins of Complex Language. Psycoloquy : 82.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1999) Explicitness and predication: a risky linkage. (Peer comment on a paper by Dienes and Perner). Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 762-763.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1999) The tension between 'combinatorial' and 'class-default' regularity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 22: 1017-1018.

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (1998) The frame/content model and syntactic evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21(3): 515-516.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2002) How stems and affixes interact: stem alternants as morphological signata. Vienna, Austria: Proceedings of the 9th International Morphology Meeting, 1 Jan 2000.

Other

• Carstairs-McCarthy A. (2011) Evolution and morphology. : 522-524. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Encyclopedia Entry].

Future Research

• The role of the Nisus-Euryalus episode in understanding Virgil's Aeneid.