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Core Research

 

Baker, Mark. 2013. On dependent ergative case (in Shipibo) and its derivation by phase. Manuscript, Rutgers University; revised version to appear in Linguistic Inquiry.

Baker, Mark. 2012. Parameters of (Dependent) Structural Case.  Paper presented at the LAGB meeting, University of Salford.

Baker, Mark, Ken Safir, and Justine Sikuku. 2012.  Sources of (a)symmatery in Bantu double object constructions.  In Proceedings of WCCFL 30 (Santa Cruz)

Baker, Mark and Nadya Vinokurova. 2012.  Forms of Predication in Sakha: Will the True Lexical Predicates Please stand up.  To appear in Canadian Journal of Linguistics.  Also available: On Tense and Copular Verbs in Sakha  (a shortened version to appear in Rutgers Working Papers).

Baker, Mark. 2012. Pseudo-Noun Incorporation as covert noun incorporation: linearization and crosslinguistic variation. Ms., Rutgers University. (Presented at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan in June 2011, and destined for the proceedings of the workshop)

Baker, Mark. 2012.  On the relationship of object agreement and accusative case: Evidence from Amharic. Linguistic Inquiry 43:255-274. (pre-publication version)

Baker, Mark. 2011. “Obliqueness” as a component of argument structure in Amharic.  To appear in a volume entitled “The End of Argument Structure?”, edited by Yves Roberge and Maria Cristina Cuervo, Emerald Press.

Baker, Mark. 2011. When agreement is for number and gender but not person. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 29:875-915. (prepublication version)

Baker, Mark 2011.  Degrees of nominalization: clause-like constituents in Sakha. Lingua 121:1164-1193.  (pre-publication version)

Baker, Mark and Ruth Kramer. 2011. “Prepositions” as case morphemes inserted at PF in Amharic.  To appear in a volume entitled “Case at the Interfaces”, edited by Dany Jaspers (proceedings of BCGL5).

Baker, Mark. 2010. Tyes of Crosslinguistic Variation in Case Assignment. Ms., Rutgers University.  Paper presented at Workshop on Variation in the Minimalist Program, and scheduled to appear in a volume edited by Silvia Martinez Ferreirro and Carme Picallo.

Baker, Mark and Willie Udo Willie. 2010. Agreement in Ibibio: From Every Head, To Every Head. Syntax 13: 99-132.  (pre-publication version)

Baker, Mark and Nadya Vinokurova. 2010.  Two Modalities of Case Assignment: Case in Sakha.  Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 28:593-642  (Revised version, as of January 2009)

Baker, Mark. 2010. On Parameters of Agreement in Austronesian Languages. In R. Mercado, J. Sabbagh and L. Travis (eds.) Austronesian and Theoretical Linguistics. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 345-374. (prepublication version)

Baker, Mark and Nadya Vinokurova. 2009.  On Agent Nominalizations and Why They are not Like Event Nominalizations.  Language 85:517-556.  (pre-publication version)

Baker, Mark. 2009.  On some ways to test Tagalog nominalism from a crosslinguistic perspective.  (A commentary on a paper by Daniel Kaufmann, for Theoretical Linguistics)

Baker, Mark. 2009. Is Head Movement Still Needed for Noun Incorporation? The Case of Mapudungun. Lingua 119:148-165. (Pre-publication version)

Baker, Mark and Carlos Fasola. 2009. Araucanian: Mapudungun. In R. Lieber and P. Stekauer (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Compounding, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 594-608. 

Baker, Mark. 2008. On the Nature of the Anti-Agreement Effect: Evidence from Wh-in-Situ in Ibibio. Linguistic Inquiry 39: 615-632.  (pre-publication version)

Baker, Mark. 2005. On Gerunds and the Theory of Categories. Ms, Rutgers University.

Baker, Mark and Chris Collins. 2006. Linkers and the Internal Structure of vP. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 24: 307-354.

Baker, Mark, Roberto Aranovich and Lucía Golluscio. 2005. Two Types of Syntactic Noun Incorporation: Noun Incorporation in Mapudungun and Its Typological Implications. Language 81, 138-177. (Abstract.)

Baker, Mark. 2005. On Verb-Initial and Verb-Final Word Orders in Lokaa. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics 26:125-164.

Baker, Mark. 2003. Agreement, Dislocation and Partial Configurationality. In A. Carnie, H. Harley and M. Willie (eds.) Formal Approaches to Function. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 107-134.

Kandybowicz, Jason and Mark Baker. 2003. On Directionality and the Structure of the Verb Phrase: Evidence from Nupe. Syntax 6, 115-155. (Abstract.)

Baker, Mark. 2003. Verbal Adjectives as Adjectives without Phi-Features. Proceedings of the Fourth Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Yukio Otsu (ed.), Keio University, 1-22.

Baker, Mark. 2003. On the Loci of Agreement: Inverstion Constructions in Mapundungun. Proceedings of NELS 33, GLSA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 25-49.

Baker, Mark. 2003. Building and Merging, not Checking: The Nonexistence of (Aux)-S-V-O Languages. Linguistic Inquiry 33, 321-329.

Baker, Mark and Osamuyimen T. Stewart. 2002. A Serial Verb Construction Without Constructions. Ms, Rutgers University.

Baker, Mark. 2006. On Zero Agreement and Polysynthesis. In P. Ackema, P. Brandt, M. Schoorlemmer and F. Weerman (eds.) Arguments and Agreement. Oxford University Press, Oxord, 289-320.

Baker, Mark and Osamuyimen T. Stewart. 1999. On Double-Headedness and the Anatomy of the Clause. Ms, Rutgers University.

Baker, Mark and Osamuyimen T. Stewart. 1999. Verb Movement, Objects and Serialization. Ms, Rutgers University.

Baker, Mark and Lisa Travis. 1997. Mood as Verbal Definiteness in a 'Tenseless' Language. Natural Language Semantics 1, 43-83.

Baker, Mark. 1997. Thematic Roles and Syntactic Structure. In L. Haegeman (ed.) Elements of Grammar. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 73-137.

Baker, Mark. 1996. On the Structural Position of Themes and Goals. In J. Rooryck and L. Zaring (eds.) Phrase Structure and the Lexicon. Kluwer, Dordrecht, 7-34.

 

General & Cognitive Science

Baker, Mark. 2011. On agreement and its relationship to case: Some generative ideas and results. To appear in a special issue of Lingua, edited by Luigi Rizzi.

Baker, Mark. 2010. Theism and cognitive science.  To appear in the Routledge Companion to Theism, edited by Charles Taliaferro and Stewart Goetz.

Baker, Mark. 2009. Language Universals: Abstract not Mythological.  To appear in Behavior and Brain Sciences 32:448-449, a commentary on a target article by Evans and Levinson.

Baker, Mark. 2007. The Creative Aspect of Language Use and Nonbiological Nativism. In P. Crruthers, S. Lawrence and S. Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind 3: Foundations and the Future. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 233-253.

Baker, Mark. 2008. The Macroparameter in a Microparametric World. In T. Biberauer (ed.), The Limits of Syntactic Variation, John Benjamins, Amsterdam, 351-374.  (prepublication version)

Baker, Mark. 2006. Do All Languages Have the Same Grammar? In E.M. Rickerson and B. Hilton (eds.) The 5-Minute Linguist. Equinox Press, London, 54-57.

Baker, Mark. 2005. The Innate Endowment for Language: Overspecified or Underspecified. In P. Carruthers, S. Lawrence and S. Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 156-174.

Baker, Mark. 2005. Mapping the Terrain of Language Acquisition. Language Learning and Development 1, 93-129. (Prepublication version.)

Baker, Mark. 2003. Language Differences and Language Design. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 7, 349-353.


Framework & Method

Baker, Mark. In press. Hypothesis testing in the Minimalist Program.  To appear in the Bloomsbury Companion to Syntax, edited by SilviaLuraghi.

Baker, Mark. 2011. The interplay between Universal Grammar, universals, and lineage specificity: Some reflections raised by Dunn, Greenhill, Levinson, and Gray 2011. Linguistic Typology 15:473-482.  (Prepublication version)

Baker, Mark. 2010. Formal Generative Typology. In B. Heine and H. Narrog (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Linguisti Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 285-312.

Baker, Mark and James McCloskey. 2007. On the Relationship of Typology to Theoretical Syntax. Linguistic Typology 11:273-284.


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