Andrew Garrett (linguist)

Andrew Garrett
Born	1961 (age 62–63)
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University
Thesis	The Syntax of Anatolian Pronominal Clitics (1990)
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley

Andrew James Garrett (born 1961) is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

He specializes in Indo-European languages, and the languages of California, especially Yurok.

Garrett received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Harvard University in 1990, with a dissertation titled The Syntax of Anatolian Pronominal Clitics. He is a fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.

In collaboration with Leanne Hinton, Garrett has worked on a project to digitize many of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages records, which are now available through the California Language Archive.

A 2015 paper co-authored by Garret was recognized as the Best Linguistics Paper of the Year. Titled "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis support the Indo-European steppe hypothesis," (co-authored by Will Chang, David Hall, Chundra Cathcart), it elegantly showed that, when methodological errors are corrected, phylogenetic analysis (which had earlier been used to suggest that the steppe hypothesis was untenable), actually supports the time frame necessary for the steppe hypothesis.

Bibliography

• 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)
• Will Chang, David Hall, Chundra Cathcart, Andrew Garrett, "Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the Indo-European steppe hypothesis,"Language, Vol. 91, No. 1 (MARCH 2015), pp. 194-244
• Basic Yurok (Berkeley: Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, 2014)
• Dianne Jonas, John Whitman, and Andrew Garrett, eds., Grammatical change: Origins, nature, outcomes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
• Lisa Conathan, Andrew Garrett, and Juliette Blevins, compilers, Preliminary Yurok dictionary (Berkeley: Yurok Language Project, Department of Linguistics, UC Berkeley, 2005)