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Chris Barker  
Associate Professor 
Department of Linguistics 
 New York University
726 Broadway, 7th floor
New York, NY 10003

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 Just out: Parasitic Scope
Research Interests: My central interest is formal model-theoretic analysis for natural language semantics. I'm particularly interested in the internal structure of noun phrases, including possessive constructions, relational nouns, nominal argument structure, implicit arguments, plurals, and thematic relations. Other research topics include quantification, vagueness, crossover, and continuations.  Areas of Instruction: Undergraduate courses taught: Semantics, Syntax, Computational Linguistics, Cryptography. Graduate: Topics in Semantics, Introductory Syntax, Pragmatics, Formal Methods, Formal Semantics.   Recently out (Feb 2007):
Research and Papers; CV   Courses
Along with Peter Lasersohn, I'm the co-founder and co-maintainer of the Semantics Archive: An online preprint archive for natural language semantics
Lambda tutorial
Iota and Jot: the simplest non-trivial languages possible?
How many syllables in English?
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. --Charles Darwin
...and Dirac had a weird version of quantum theory in which every state had probability either plus two or minus two. Probability, as common sense defines it, is a number between zero and one expressing our degree of confidence that an event will happen. Probability one means that the event always happens; probability zero means that it never happens. In Dirac's Alice-in-Wonderland world, every state happens either more often than always or less often than never. --Freeman Dyson, in the New York Review of Books.

"In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them."
--von Neumann [as reported by G. Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters]

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing slowly...