Mark Baker (linguist)

Mark Baker
Born	1959
Fields	Syntax, Generative grammar
Institutions	Rutgers University, McGill University
Alma mater	MIT
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.

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