User:Marlintaylor

Overview
Marlin Daniel Taylor was born February 16, 1982. He was raised in Price, Utah, USA, a small town in the "Castle Country" region of the state. In 2000, Marlin moved to Provo, Utah, and in 2001 moved to Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, where he currently resides with his partner.

Academics
Marlin graduated from Carbon High School in 2000. Also in 2000, he graduated from the College of Eastern Utah with an Associate of Arts degree, which he had begun in 1999. In 2001, he began undergraduate study at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. In 2004 he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in General Linguistics. In 2005 he re-enrolled at the University of Utah to begin work on a Master of Arts in Linguistics with an emphasis in theoretical syntax, which he will be awarded in 2007. Marlin will begin doctoral study at Stony Brook University in 2007, pursuing a PhD in Linguistics.

Interests
Marlin has a tremendous fondness for Pringles potato chips. He also loves to watch Friends television episodes, especially in the company of his beloved cat. Marlin studies the French language, and enjoys reading French plays and short stories. In 2006, he had the opportunity to spend two weeks in Europe, most of which time was spent in Paris (the best two weeks of his life).

Beside Linguistics, Marlin is interested in the fields of Anthropology, Cognitive Psychology, and Sociology, among others.