Chris Barker (linguist)
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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{{cite web |title=Chris Barker Professor Of Linguistics |url=https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/christian-l-barker.html |website=NYU |access-date=29 August 2022}}
Selected works
- Barker & Chan 2014: Continuations and Natural Language. {{ISBN|978-0-19-957502-2}}
- Barker 2001: [https://web.archive.org/web/20091116052048/http://semarch.linguistics.fas.nyu.edu/barker/Iota/ Iota and Jot - the simplest languages?]
References
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External links
- {{cite web|url=http://www.nyu.edu/projects/barker/barker-cv.pdf |date=January 7, 2017 |title=Chris Barker : CV |website=Nyu.edu |access-date=2017-06-16}}
- {{cite web|url=http://linguistics.as.nyu.edu/object/chrisbarker.html |title=Department of Linguistics |website=Linguistics.as.nyu.edu |date=2017-06-12 |access-date=2017-06-16}}
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