Chris Barker (linguist)
American linguist
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
Selected works
Barker & Chan 2014: Continuations and Natural Language. ISBN 978-0-19-957502-2
Barker 2001: Iota and Jot - the simplest languages?
References
External links
"Chris Barker : CV" (PDF). Nyu.edu. 7 January 2017. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
"Department of Linguistics". Linguistics.as.nyu.edu. 12 June 2017.
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