Mark Baker

Professor
Department of Linguistics
School of Arts and Sciences

Key topics

Syntactic theory, morphology and its relationship to syntax and semantics, linguistics, the grammar of Amerindian languages and African languages, implications of linguistics for the study of the human mind

Biography

Professor Baker received his Ph.D. from MIT. His interests include comparative syntax, linguistic universals, semantic syntax and Amerindian and African languages. Recent books written include Lexical Categories, Cambridge University Press, 2005; and Atoms of Languages, Basic Books, 2001.

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