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Mark Baker
Born1959 (age 64–65)
Alma materMIT
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Doctoral advisorNoam Chomsky
WebsiteRutgers 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.

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  1. ^ Baker, Mark C. (1988). Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226035413. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
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