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Core Research

Baker, Mark 2009.  Degrees of nominalization: clause-like constituents in Sakha. Ms., Rutgers University. 

Baker, Mark and Nadya Vinokurova. 2009.  Two Modalities of Case Assignment: Case in Sakha.  Ms., Rutgers University.  (Revised version, as of January 2009.  Final version to appear in NLLT)

Baker, Mark and Nadya Vinokurova. 2009.  Forms of Predication in Sakha: Will the True Lexical Predicates Please stand up.  Paper presented at the workshop on noncanonical predication, University of Western Ontario.  Also available: On Tense and Copular Verbs in Sakha  (a shortened version to appear in Rutgers Working Papers).

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 and Nadya Vinokurova. 2008.  On Agent Nominalizations and Why They are not Like Event Nominalizations.  Ms., Rutgers University  (Revised final version to appear in Language)

Baker, Mark. 2008.  When Agreement is for Number and Gender but not for Person.  Ms., Rutgers University (Revised final version to appear in a special issue of NLLT)

Baker, Mark and Willie Udo Willie. 2008. Agreement in Ibibio: From Every Head, To Every Head. To Appear in Syntax.

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. 2007. On Parameters of Agreement in Austronesian Languages. To Appear in R. Mercado, J. Sabbagh and L. Travis (eds.) Papers from AFLA XIV. John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

Baker, Mark and Carlos Fasola. 2007. Araucanian: Mapudungun. In R. Liever and P. Stekauer (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Compounding, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Baker, Mark. 2006. Is Head Movement Still Needed for Noun Incorporation? The Case of Mapudungun. In Press Lingua.

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. 2009. Language Universals: Abstract not Mythological.  To appear in Behavior and Brain Sciences, 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. 2008. Formal Generative Typology. To appear in B. Heine and H. Narrog (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Linguisti Analysis, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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


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