Mark Baker (linguist)
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Mark Baker | |
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Born | 1959 |
Alma mater | MIT |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Syntax, Generative grammar |
Institutions | Rutgers University, McGill University |
Doctoral advisor | Noam Chomsky |
Mark Cleland Baker (born 1959) is an American linguist. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and has taught at Rutgers since 1998. Prof. Baker frequently was a faculty member at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute and, prior to coming to Rutgers, was a faculty member at McGill University (1986-1998). He worked on the Mohawk language for several years, also serving as a consultant on language revitalization for the Mohawk. Working within generative grammar, he wrote several important books about the formal analysis of polysynthetic languages.
Bibliography[]
- Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing (University of Chicago Press, 1988) ISBN 0226035417[1]
- (1996) The Polysynthesis Parameter
- (2001) The Atoms of Language
- (2002) Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives
- (2008) The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
- (2011) The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul Editor (with Stewart Goetz) and Contributor.
References[]
- ^ Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing- Retrieved 2019-02-03
Categories:
- Linguists from the United States
- Living people
- 1959 births
- MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
- Rutgers University alumni
- Native American language revitalization
- Rutgers University faculty
- McGill University faculty
- Linguists of Uto-Aztecan languages