Background
McCarthy, John Joseph was born on April 29, 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Joseph and Joan Theresa (Condon) McCarthy.
McCarthy, John Joseph was born on April 29, 1953 in Medford, Massachusetts, United States. Son of John Joseph and Joan Theresa (Condon) McCarthy.
AB, Harvard University, 1975. Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979.
From assistant to associate professor University Texas, Austin, 1979-1985. Professor University Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, since 1985. Consultant American Telephone & Telegraph Company Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1984-1986.
Landsdowne visiting scholar University Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1994. Instructor Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University California, 1991, Stanford (California) University, 1987.
Member Linguistic Society of America (program committee 1985-1988), Arabic Linguistic Society (vice president 1988-1989, president 1989-1990), Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Ellen Woolford, December 26, 1981.