Mark C. Baker

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Mark Cleland Baker (* 1959) is an American linguist and university professor.

He received a Ph.D. in 1985. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Between 1986 and 1998 he was a faculty member at McGill University before he finally started teaching at Rutgers University in 1998 . In 1980 he received a Bachelor (BS) in mathematics and in 1981 in philosophy. At times he was a member of the "Summer Institute" of the Linguistic Society of America . Baker worked on the Mohawk language for many years . In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

One of his most important linguistic research subjects is generative grammar . For example, Baker (1988) developed the concept of the Universal Theta Assignment Hypothesis (UTAH) ( Theta role ) for rule and attachment theory .

Works (selection)

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Curriculum Vitae of Mark C. Baker
  2. ↑ Fellows of the AAAS: Mark C. Baker. (No longer available online.) American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on February 3, 2018 ; accessed on February 3, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aaas.org
  3. ^ Mark C. Baker: Incorporation. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1988, ISBN 0-226-03541-7
personal data
SURNAME Baker, Mark C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baker, Mark Cleland
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1959