Laurie Bauer

Laurie Bauer FRSNZ is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. He is a descriptive linguist, whose main interest is in morphology, and in particular in word-formation. This interest is reflected in a number of his publications. He has also published in a number of related areas, such as the description of varieties of English (including New Zealand English), phonetics, phonology, the recent history of the English language, comparative Germanic, the description of Danish. The Oxford Reference guide to English Morphology (Oxford University Press), which he co-wrote with Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag, won the American Linguistic Society’s coveted Leonard Bloomfield prize in 2015. In 2017 he won the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Humanities/Aronui Medal ‘for research or innovative work of outstanding merit in the Humanities’.