Mark C. Baker

14.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Mark C. Baker is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark C. Baker has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Language and Linguistics, 26 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Mark C. Baker's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (54 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (22 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers). Mark C. Baker is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (54 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (22 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (14 papers). Mark C. Baker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Canada. Mark C. Baker's co-authors include Ian Roberts, Kyle Johnson, Chris Collins, Lucía A. Golluscio, Ruth Kramer, Kenneth Hale, Jim McCloskey, Walter F. Tichy, Jason Kandybowicz and William Croft and has published in prestigious journals such as Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Language and Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Mark C. Baker

59 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing 1988 2026 2000 2013 1988 2008 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing
    1988 1.4k citations Mark C. Baker profile →
  2. The Syntax of Agreement and Concord
    2008 379 citations Mark C. Baker Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark C. Baker United States 25 3.8k 1.5k 1.2k 1.1k 567 61 4.3k
Guglielmo Cinque Italy 23 4.5k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 768 1.4× 74 5.0k
Liliane Haegeman Belgium 32 3.3k 0.9× 1.3k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 1.0k 1.0× 414 0.7× 114 3.8k
Richard S. Kayne United States 19 4.4k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 852 1.5× 50 4.9k
Howard Lasnik United States 28 3.0k 0.8× 1.5k 1.0× 821 0.7× 829 0.8× 461 0.8× 54 3.5k
Juan Uriagereka United States 20 2.3k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 662 0.6× 690 0.6× 339 0.6× 65 2.7k
Beth Levin United States 24 3.2k 0.9× 1.7k 1.2× 625 0.5× 1.6k 1.5× 490 0.9× 59 4.6k
Tanya Reinhart Israel 20 2.5k 0.7× 1.2k 0.8× 515 0.4× 929 0.8× 463 0.8× 27 3.2k
Robert Freidin United States 8 2.1k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 527 0.4× 913 0.8× 310 0.5× 26 2.7k
Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου Germany 25 2.7k 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 862 0.7× 815 0.7× 445 0.8× 143 3.0k
Paul Kiparsky United States 22 2.6k 0.7× 1.4k 0.9× 1.6k 1.4× 2.2k 2.0× 207 0.4× 47 4.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baker, Mark C.. (2017). Structural case: a realm of syntactic microparameters. 41(3). 193–240. 2 indexed citations
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Dikken, Marcel den, Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου, Howard Lasnik, et al.. (2013). The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 50 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., et al.. (2012). Forms of predication in Sakha (Turkic): Will the true lexical predicates please stand up?. The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La revue canadienne de linguistique. 57(2). 177–207. 2 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (2011). Degrees of nominalization: Clause-like constituents in Sakha. Lingua. 121(7). 1164–1193. 12 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., et al.. (2009). On Agent Nominalizations and Why They are Not Like Event Nominalizations. Language. 85(3). 517–556. 33 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., et al.. (2005). Two Types of Syntactic Noun Incorporation: Noun Incorporation in Mapudungun and its Typological Implications. Language. 81(1). 138–176. 58 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (2005). On verb-initial and verb-final word orders in Lokạạ. Journal of African Languages and Linguistics. 26(2). 7 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (2003). Linguistic differences and language design. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7(8). 349–353. 31 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., et al.. (1999). Verb Movement, Objects, and Serialization. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 29(1). 3. 10 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., et al.. (1997). Unaccusativity and the Adjective/Verb Distinction: Edo Evidence. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 27(1). 4. 12 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (1997). Particles: On the Syntax of Verb-Particle, Triadic, and Causative Constructions, by Marcel den Dikken. Natural Language & Linguistic Theory. 15(3). 641–666. 2 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., et al.. (1997). Mood as Verbal Definiteness in a "Tenseless" Language. Natural Language Semantics. 5(3). 213–269. 28 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (1996). The Polysynthesis Parameter. 290 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (1993). Why Unaccusative Verbs Cannot Dative-Shift. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 23(1). 4. 4 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C. & Kenneth Hale. (1990). Relativized minimality and pronoun incorporation. Linguistic Inquiry. 21(2). 289–297. 31 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C.. (1989). Object sharing and projection in serial verb constructions. Linguistic Inquiry. 20(4). 513–554. 148 indexed citations
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Baker, Mark C., Kyle Johnson, & Ian Roberts. (1989). Passive arguments raised. Linguistic Inquiry. 20(2). 219–252. 239 indexed citations
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