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.[1]
A 2015 paper co-authored by Garrett 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.[3][4]
Garrett is married to another professor at Berkeley, Leslie Kurke.[5]
Awards
2007 Distinguished Teaching Award, bestowed by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate's Committee on Teaching[5]
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)
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)
