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Chris Barker is a Professor of Linguistics at New York University, specializing in formal semantics, syntax-semantics interfaces, and quantifier scope phenomena. His work integrates type-logical grammar with empirical linguistic analysis. Research focuses on scope islands, anaphora resolution, and syntactic discontinuity, with notable contributions to quantifier raising and polarity sensitivity theories.
Key research interests include the formal analysis of possessive constructions, evaluation order effects in syntax, and the logical structure of linguistic meaning. He has extensively explored issues like crossover constraints, reconstruction, and the role of continuations in natural language semantics.
His publications span over three decades, addressing topics from dynamic semantics to syntactic constraints on scope ambiguity. Barker’s work bridges theoretical linguistics with computational models, emphasizing the interplay between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
