Mark Baker (linguist)

Mark Baker

Born	1959
Fields	Syntax, Generative grammar
Institutions	Rutgers University, McGill University
Alma mater	MIT
Doctoral advisor	Noam Chomsky

Mark C. 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 has frequently been 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 has worked on the Mohawk language for several years, also serving as a consultant on language revitalization for the Mohawk. Working within generative grammar, he has written several important books about the formal analysis of polysynthetic languages.

External links

Mark C. Baker's website

Bibliography

(1988) Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing
(1996) The Polysynthesis Parameter
(2002) Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives
(2003) The Atoms of Language
(2008) The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
(2011) The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul Editor (with Stewart Goetz) and Contributor

Authority control	WorldCat LCCN: n86129533

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