Chris Barker (linguist)

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Chris Barker is the American chair professor of linguistics at New York University, famous for his discovery of the universal iota combinator and his continuation-based approach to scope.

He gathered bachelorates in English (Yale 1983) and Computer and Information Sciences (Santa Cruz 1986) before his doctorate in linguistics (Santa Cruz 1991).

Selected works[]

  • Barker & Chan 2014: Continuations and Natural Language. ISBN 978-0-19-957502-2
  • Barker 2001: Iota and Jot - the simplest languages?

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