Philip Carr (linguist)
Philip Carr | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 September 1953 Scotland |
| Died | 30 March 2020 (aged 66) Edinburgh |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
| Children | Thomas Carr BRULARD and Sophie Carr BRULARD and Lucille Bluefield |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics |
| Institutions | University of Montpellier (1999 to 2017), University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne (1983-1999), University of Khartoum, University of Texas at Austin, University of Canterbury at Christchurch[1] |
| Thesis | Instrumentalism, realism and the object of inquiry in theoretical linguistics (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | J. R. Hurford |
| Other academic advisors | Roger Lass, Noel Burton-Roberts, E. Itkonen |
Philip Carr (25 September 1953 – 30 March 2020) was a British linguist and Emeritus Professor in the English Department of the University of Montpellier. He is best known for his works on phonology and philosophy of linguistics.[2]
Career
Philip Carr earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1987 with a thesis entitled, "Instrumentalism, realism and the object of inquiry in theoretical linguistics."[3] He was lecturer and then senior lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne from 1985 - 1999. In 1999 he took up a position as Professor at the University of Montpellier where he remained until his retirement in 2017.[4]
He wrote two widely used textbooks: Phonology and English Phonetics and Phonology. Both went into second and even third editions, attesting to their continued popularity and usefulness.
Books
- Phonology, Palgrave Macmillan 1993 (1st ed.), 2013 (2nd ed.) ISBN 978-0312103576
- A Glossary of Phonology, Edinburgh University Press 2008
- Linguistic realities: an autonomist metatheory for the generative enterprise, Cambridge University Press 1990
- English Phonetics and Phonology: An Introduction, 3rd edition 2019. ISBN 978-1119533740
- Headhood, Elements, Specification and Contrastivity: Phonological papers in honour of John Anderson (co-ed. with Jacques Durand and Colin Ewen) John Benjamins 2005. ISBN 978-1588116178
- Phonological Knowledge: Conceptual and Empirical Issues, with Noel Burton-Roberts and Gerard Docherty (eds.), Oxford University Press 2000
References
- ^ "Current approaches to syntax : a comparative handbook". 2019.
- ^ Botha, Rudolf P. (March 1992). "Philip Carr, Linguistic realities: an autonomist metatheory for the generative enterprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 157". Journal of Linguistics. 28 (1): 221–227. doi:10.1017/S0022226700015073. ISSN 1469-7742. S2CID 144884865.
- ^ https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/19470https://era.ed.ac.uk/handle/1842/19470
- ^ "LINGUIST List 31.1375: All: Philip Carr (1953–2020)". The LINGUIST List. 17 April 2020.