Mark Baker (linguist)

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Mark Baker
Born	1959 (age 64–65)
Alma mater	MIT
Scientific career
Fields	Syntax generative grammar
Institutions	Rutgers University McGill University
Doctoral advisor	Noam Chomsky
Website	Rutgers faculty page

Mark Cleland Baker (born 1959) 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.

• Incorporation: A theory of grammatical function changing (University of Chicago Press, 1988) ISBN 0226035417^[1]
• The Polysynthesis Parameter (Oxford University Press, 1996)
• The Atoms of Language (Basic Books, 2001)
• Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns and Adjectives (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
• The Syntax of Agreement and Concord (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• The Soul Hypothesis: Investigations into the Existence of the Soul (Continuum, 2011) – editor (with Stewart Goetz) and contributor