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Mark Baker
Born	1959 (age 66–67)
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 Americanlinguist. He received hisPh.D. fromMIT in 1985 and has taught atRutgers University since 1998. Baker frequently was a faculty member at theLinguistic Society of America's Summer Institute and, prior to coming to Rutgers, was a faculty member atMcGill University (1986–1998). He worked with theMohawk language for several years, also serving as a consultant on language revitalization for the Mohawk. Working withingenerative grammar, he has written several books about the formal analysis ofpolysynthetic 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

• 21st-century American linguists
• Living people
• 1959 births
• MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
• Rutgers University alumni
• Native American language revitalization
• Rutgers University faculty
• Academic staff of McGill University
• Linguists of Uto-Aztecan languages
• Fellows of the Linguistic Society of America

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