andrew garrett

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CV

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Research

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Students

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Teaching

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Archives

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Biography

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Recreation

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In Memoriam

Publications

Andrew Garrett, The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall, cover, 2023

The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall (2023)

with Basic Yurok

with Basic Yurok in 2016

Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis, 2015

Chang, Cathcart, Hall & Garrett, "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis", Language 91 (2015)

Hittite enclitic subjects and transitive verbs, 1990

"Hittite enclitic subjects and transitive verbs", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 42 (1990)

Book-length scholarship

  1. The unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, memory, and Indigenous California (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2023)

  2. Andrew Garrett, Melissa Stoner, Susan Edwards, Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, Nicole Myers-Lim, Benjamin W. Porter, Elaine C. Tennant, and Verna Bowie, Native American collections in archives, libraries, and museums at the University of California, Berkeley (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, UC Berkeley, 2019; also available in print at cost via lulu.com)

  3. Basic Yurok (Berkeley: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, 2014)

  4. Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, and Andrew Garrett, eds., Grammatical change: Origins, nature, outcomes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)

  5. Lisa Conathan, Andrew Garrett, and Juliette Blevins, compilers, Preliminary Yurok dictionary (Berkeley: Yurok Language Project, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 2005)

  6. "The syntax of Anatolian pronominal clitics", PhD dissertation, Harvard University (1990)

Creative work

  1. Andrew Garrett, ed., Poetarum lesbiorum carmina pestilentialia (Berkeley: Thwarted Intimacy Press, 2020), xv + 41 pp. [preprint]

  2. Cat wrangler: An epistolary memoir (Berkeley: Thwarted Intimacy Press, 2018), xiv + 86 pp.

  3. "On 'The phonological basis of sound change' (after Hopkins)", in The nature of the word: Essays in honor of Paul Kiparsky, ed. by Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), p. 3

Digital collections

  1. Berkeley Field Methods: Northern Paiute, SCL 2018-02, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, UC Berkeley, http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.7297/X2251GBJ (2005-2006). Primary contributors: Molly Babel, Grace Dick, Leona Cluette Dick, Andrew Garrett, Joyce Glazier, Erin Haynes, Michael Houser, Morris Jack, Reiko Kataoka, Fanny Liu, Elaine Lundy, Nicole Marcus, Edith McCann, Edna Mega Dick McDonald, Meg McDonald, Ruth Rouvier, Madeline Stevens, Angela Strom-Weber, Maziar Toosarvandani.

  2. Materials of the Berkeley Karuk Project, SCL 2017-04, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/collection/11150 (2010-2017). Primary contributors: LuLu Alexander, Tamara Alexander, Sonny Davis, Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, Crystal Richardson, Clare S. Sandy, Vina Smith, Florrine Super, Charlie Thom Sr.

Scholarly articles and book chapters

  1. "Alfred Kroeber's documentation of Inuktun (Polar Inuit)", to appear in Anthropological Linguistics [preprint]
  2. Andrew Garrett, Susan Gehr, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, Crystal Richardson, and Clare S. Sandy, "Karuk", in The languages and linguistics of Indigenous North America, ed. by Carmen Jany, Marianne Mithun, and Keren Rice (de Gruyter, 2023), pp. 1169-1200

  3. "'The correct way of writing the Indian language': Juan Dolores at the University of California", Boom California, February 27, 2023

  4. Andrew Garrett and Alice C. Harris, "Assessing scholarship in documentary linguistics", Language 98 (2022) e156-e172

  5. "New perspectives on Indo-European phylogeny and chronology", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 162 (2018) 25-38

  6. "Online dictionaries for language revitalization", in The Routledge handbook of language revitalization, edited by Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss, and Gerald Roche (Routledge, 2018), pp. 197-206 [uncorrected proof]

  7. Will Chang, Chundra Cathcart, David Hall, and Andrew Garrett, "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis", Language 91 (2015) 194-244 [offprint]

  8. "Sound change", in The Routledge handbook of historical linguistics, edited by Claire Bowern and Bethwyn Evans (Routledge, 2015), p. 227-248

  9. Molly Babel, Andrew Garrett, Michael Houser, and Maziar Toosarvandani, "Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology", International Journal of American Linguistics 79 (2013) 445-489 [offprint]

  10. Andrew Garrett and Keith Johnson, "Phonetic bias in sound change", in Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization, edited by Alan C. L. Yu (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 51-97 [uncorrected proof]

  11. "The historical syntax problem: Reanalysis and directionality", in Grammatical change: Origins, nature, outcomes, ed. by Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, and Andrew Garrett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 52-72

  12. "An online dictionary with texts and pedagogical tools: The Yurok Language Project at Berkeley", International Journal of Lexicography 24 (2011) 405-419 [online]

  13. Andrew Garrett and Juliette Blevins, "Analogical morphophonology", in The nature of the word: Essays in honor of Paul Kiparsky, ed. by Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), pp. 527-545 [uncorrected proofs]

  14. "Paradigmatic uniformity and markedness", in Explaining linguistic universals: Historical convergence and universal grammar, ed. by Jeff Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 125-143

  15. Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett, "The rise and fall of l-sandhi in California Algic", International Journal of American Linguistics 73 (2007) 72-93

  16. "Convergence in the formation of Indo-European subgroups: Phylogeny and chronology", in Phylogenetic methods and the prehistory of languages, ed. by Peter Forster and Colin Renfrew (Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2006), pp. 139-151

  17. Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett, "The evolution of metathesis", in Phonetically-based phonology, ed. by Bruce Hayes, Robert Kirchner, and Donca Steriade (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 117-156

  18. "The evolution of Algic verbal stem structure: New evidence from Yurok", in Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 13-16, 2004: Special Session on the Morphology of American Indian Languages, ed. by Marc Ettlinger, Nicholas Fleisher, and Mischa Park-Doob (Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2004), pp. 46-60

  19. "Proto-Algonquian *š and 'Ritwan': A rejoinder", Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics 29 (2004) 50-51

  20. Esther Wood and Andrew Garrett, "The semantics of Yurok Intensive infixation", in Proceedings from the Fourth Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, ed. by Jeannie Castillo (Santa Barbara: Department of Linguistics, UC Santa Barbara, 2001), pp. 112-126

  21. "Reduplication and infixation in Yurok: Morphology, semantics, and diachrony", International Journal of American Linguistics 67 (2001) 264-312

  22. "On the prosodic phonology of Ogam Irish", Ériu 50 (1999) 139-160

  23. "A new model of Indo-European subgrouping and dispersal", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12-15, 1999, ed. by Steve S. Chang, Lily Liaw, and Josef Ruppenhofer (Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1999), pp. 146-156

  24. "On the origin of auxiliary do", English Language and Linguistics 2 (1998) 283-330

  25. Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett, "The origins of consonant-vowel metathesis", Language 74 (1998) 508-556

  26. "Adjarian's Law, the glottalic theory, and the position of Armenian", in Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-16, 1998: Special Session on Indo-European Subgrouping and Internal Relations, ed. by Benjamin K. Bergen, Madelaine C. Plauché, and Ashlee C. Bailey (Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1998), pp. 12-23

  27. "Remarks on the Old Hittite split genitive", in Mír Curad: Studies in honor of Calvert Watkins, ed. by Jay Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert, Lisi Oliver (Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1998), pp. 155-163

  28. "Wackernagel's Law and unaccusativity in Hittite", in Approaching second: Second position clitics and related phenomena, ed. by Aaron L. Halpern and Arnold M. Zwicky (Stanford, Calif.: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1997), pp. 85-133

  29. "Pudenda Asiae Minoris" (with Leslie Kurke), Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 96 (1994) 75-83

  30. "Relative clause syntax in Lycian and Hittite", Die Sprache 36 (1994) 29-69

  31. "A note on the morphosyntax of Lycian and Anatolian possession", Die Sprache 35 (1991-93) 155-162

  32. Juliette Blevins and Andrew Garrett, "The evolution of Ponapeic Nasal Substitution", Oceanic Linguistics 32 (1993) 199-236

  33. "Topics in Lycian syntax", Historische Sprachforschung 105 (1992) 200-212

  34. "Ponapean Nasal Substitution: New evidence for rhinoglottophilia" (with Juliette Blevins), in Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 14-17, 1992, ed. by Laura A. Buszard-Welcher, Lionel Wee, and William Weigel (Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1992), pp. 2-21

  35. "The Lycian nasalized preterite", Münchner Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft 52 (1991) 15-26

  36. "Review Article: Indo-European reconstruction and historical methodologies", Language 67 (1991) 790-804

  37. "Hittite enclitic subjects and transitive verbs", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 42 (1990) 227-242

  38. "The origin of NP split ergativity", Language 66 (1990) 261-296

  39. "Applicatives and preposition incorporation", in Grammatical relations: A cross-theoretical perspective, ed. by Katarzyna Dziwirek, Patrick Farrell, and Errapel Mejías-Bikandi (Stanford, Calif.: Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1990), pp. 183-198

  40. "Ergative case assignment, Wackernagel's Law, and the VP Base Hypothesis", Proceedings of the North East Linguistic Society 19 (1989) 113-126

  41. "The Dwarvish language", I Cala 1 (1976) 8-10

  42. "The Black Speech", I Cala 1 (1976) 11-12

Permanently archived presentations

  1. Andrew Garrett, Edwin Ko, Julia Nee, Zachary O'Hagan, and Ronald Sprouse, "'Pre-archiving' with the California Language Archive: Incremental archiving and early ongoing curation", 6th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC, March 2019), URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/44860
  2. Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen, "Documenting, analyzing, and teaching the grammar of direction in Karuk", 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC, March 2015), URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/25285
  3. "Pedagogy and practice: Grammatical analysis in a revitalization project", 3rd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC, March 2013), URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/26098
  4. "Integrating archives and new documentation: The Berkeley Yurok Language Project", 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC, March 2009), URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10125/5096

Oratory

  1. Linguistics Department Commencement Address, May 2013

  2. "Graduation day", Berkeley Language Center Newsletter 24/1 (Fall 2008): Commencement address to language and literature departments, Zellerbach Hall, May 19, 2008

  3. Memorial reminiscences for Corinne Crawford, August 27, 2007

  4. Linguistics Department Commencement Address, May 1997

Reviews of life and work

  1. Review: James McElvenny, A history of modern linguistics: From the beginnings to World War II (2024), to appear in Language 101/1 (2025) [preprint]

  2. "Remembering Anna Morpurgo Davies", in "Anna Morpurgo Davies, 10 years on", an online collection by the Philological Society (2024) [preprint]

  3. "Four decades in historical linguistics", Diachronica 41 (2024) [preprint]

  4. "Biography of Paul Kiparsky", in The nature of the word: Essays in honor of Paul Kiparsky, ed. by Kristin Hanson and Sharon Inkelas (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009), pp. xv-xvi

  5. Lyle Campbell and Andrew Garrett, Review: Jorma Koivulehto, Uralische Evidenz für die Laryngaltheorie (1991), in Language 69 (1993) 832-836

  6. Book Notice: Rudolf Thurneysen, Gesammelte Schriften (1991), in Language 69 (1993) 437-438

  7. Book Notice: Kazuhiko Yoshida, The Hittite mediopassive endings in -ri (1990), in Language 69 (1993) 226-227

  8. Book Notice: Warren Held, William Schmalstieg, and Janet Gertz, Beginning Hittite (1988), in Language 67 (1991) 402-403

  9. Book Notice: Günter Neumann, Phrygisch und Griechisch (1988), in Language 67 (1991) 413-414