Chris Barker (linguist)

Summary

Chris Barker is the American chair professor of linguistics at New York University, famous for his discovery of the universal iota combinator and his continuation-based approach to scope.

Barker received a bachelor’s degree in English from Yale College in 1983, and both a bachelor’s degree in computer and information sciences in 1986, and a doctorate in linguistics in 1991 from the University of California, Santa Cruz[1]

Selected works edit

  • Barker & Chan 2014: Continuations and Natural Language. ISBN 978-0-19-957502-2
  • Barker 2001: Iota and Jot - the simplest languages?

References edit

  1. ^ "Chris Barker Professor Of Linguistics". NYU. Retrieved 29 August 2022.

External links edit

  • "Chris Barker : CV" (PDF). Nyu.edu. January 7, 2017. Retrieved 2017-06-16.
  • "Department of Linguistics". Linguistics.as.nyu.edu. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2017-06-16.