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Mark Baker

American linguist

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Also known as Mark C. Baker · Mark Cleland Baker

Born: 1959
Citizenship: United States
Occupation: linguist
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, philologist
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Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology(until 1985)
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Employer: Rutgers University
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Mark Cleland Baker is an American linguist. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and has taught at Rutgers University since 1998. 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 with the Mohawk language for several years, also serving as a consultant on language revitalization for the Mohawk. Working within generative grammar, he has written several books about the formal analysis of polysynthetic languages.

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