Peter Hugoe Matthews

Peter Hugoe Matthews (born 1934) is a British linguist. He is a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was formerly Professor and Head of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Cambridge (1980–2000).

This article is about the English linguist. For the New Zealand politician, see P. H. Matthews.

Matthews is perhaps best known for his writings on linguistic morphology. He has published two monographs on the subject.

Matthews was an early follower of Noam Chomsky, but lost enthusiasm for the "generative enterprise" during the 1960s. He has since become a critic of Chomsky.

Selected publications
  • Inflectional Morphology: A theoretical study based on aspects of Latin verb conjugation (1972)[1]
  • Morphology: An introduction to the theory of word-structure (1974)
  • Generative Grammar and Linguistic Competence (1979)
  • Syntax (1981)
  • Grammatical Theory in the United States from Bloomfield to Chomsky (1993)
  • A Short History of Structural Linguistics (2001)
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics (2005)
  • Syntactic Relations: A Critical Survey (2007)
gollark: *is interested in API-coded whatever*
gollark: I only have 7 reds left. This is disastrous.
gollark: I bet there'll be at least one halloweenling APed over the week.
gollark: Weird stuff happens.
gollark: You should leave many slots open for the new ones, since they tend to be pretty valuable, and also so you can breed holidaykin throughout the year.

References
  1. Matthews, Peter (1972). Inflectional Morphology: A Theoretical Study Based on Aspects of Latin Verb Conjugation. Cambridge University Press. p. 441. ISBN 0-521-08372-9.


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