Dr Brett Baker
Senior Lecturer - Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Treasurer, Australian Linguistic Society
ContactRoom 610, Babel BuildingSchool of Languages and Linguistics The University of Melbourne T: 9035 4687 E: bjbaker@ unimelb.edu.au |
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Qualifications
BA (Hons), PhD (Sydney)
Research interests and areas of supervision
Phonology, Australian Indigenous languages, morphology, referential semantics and discourse structure, formal models of grammar, complex predicates and incorporation.
Biography
Between February 2002 and June 2010 I was teaching in the Linguistics discipline at the University of New England (Armidale, NSW).
Selected publications
Books
- Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker and Mark Harvey (eds.). Complex predicates: cross-linguistic perspectives on event structure. Cambridge UP. (2010)
- Word Structure in Ngalakgan. Stanford CA: CSLI. (2008a)
- Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker (eds.). Discourse and grammar in Australian languages. [Studies in Language Companion Series, 104.] Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (2008b)
Other publications
- (with Mark Harvey) "Complex predicate formation," in Mengistu Amberber, Brett Baker, and Mark Harvey (eds.). Complex predicates in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge UP. (2010)
- "The interpretation of complex nominal expressions in Southeast Arnhem Land languages," in Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker (eds.). Discourse and grammar in Australian languages. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. (2008)
- Brett Baker and Rachel Nordlinger. "Noun-adjective compounds in Gunwinyguan languages," in Miriam Butt and Tracy Holloway-King (eds). Proceedings of the LFG08 conference. Stanford CA: CSLI Publications. 109-128. (2008)
- "Ethnoclassification and the environment in Northern Australia," in Schalley, Andrea C. and Khlentzos, Drew (eds.). Mental states, vol. 2: Language and cognitive structure. [Studies in Language Companion Series 93.] Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 239-265. (2007)
- (With Mengistu Amberber and Mark Harvey) "Complex predication and the coverb constructio," in Siegel, Jeff, Lynch, John and Eades, Diana (eds.). Language Description, History and Development: Linguistic Indulgence in Memory of Terry Crowley. pp. 209-219. John Benjamins. (2007)
- (with Mark Harvey) "Vowel harmony, directionality and morpheme structure constraints in Warlpiri," in Lingua. Vol 115/10: 1457-1474. (2005)
- "The domain of phonological processes" (290kb pdf) in Ilana Mushin (ed.). Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society. (2005)