Chris Barker (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[1]

Selected works

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

References

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