Chris Barker (linguist)

For other people named Christopher Barker, see Christopher Barker (disambiguation).

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

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