Dr Brett Baker

Name:	Dr Brett Baker
Position:	Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
Organisation:	University of New England
Department/Division:	School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Scienc
Primary Areas:	Aboriginal & Indigenous issues
	Language and literacy
Expertise:	linguistics; grammar; phonology; Aboriginal languages; Indigenous languages; Indigenous education; language maintenance; ethnobotany
Organisation type:	Academic
Website:	www.une.edu.au
Personal Website:	www-personal.une.edu.au/~bbaker2/
Notes:	From July 2008, Treasurer, Australian Linguistic Society (www.als.asn.au)
Expert's direct contacts:
Phone:	02 6773 3220
Fax:	02 6773 3748
Mobile:	0412634575
This expert is available for:	Research collaboration, Consulting work, Expert witness work, Board/committee positions, Conference presentation opportunities, Other speaking engagements

Media Contact: (Note: For journalists only)
Contact:	Leon Braun
Phone:	(02) 6773 3949
Fax:	(02) 6773 3351
Postal:	The University of New England Armidale 2351

Publications:	In press, 2008. Word Structure in Ngalakgan. CSLI: Stanford CA. Forthcoming a, with Ilana Mushin (eds.). Discourse and grammar in Australian languages. John Benjamins. Forthcoming b, with Mengistu Amberber and Mark Harvey. Complex predicates in cross-linguistic perspective. Cambridge UP. Forthcoming a 'The interpretation of complex nominal expressions in Southeast Arnhem Land languages'. In Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker (eds.) Discourse and grammar in Australian languages. Benjamins. Forthcoming b 'Australian perspectives on discourse and grammar.' In Ilana Mushin and Brett Baker (eds.) Discourse and grammar in Australian languages. Benjamins. 2007 '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.] Benjamins. Pp. 239-265. 2007 (With Mengistu Amberber and Mark Harvey) 'Complex predication and the coverb construction.' 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. 2005 (with Mark Harvey) 'Vowel harmony, directionality and morpheme structure constraints in Warlpiri.' Lingua. Vol 115/10: 1457-1474. 2003 (with Diana Eades, Helen Fraser, Jeff Siegel, and Tim McNamara) 'Linguistic identification in the determination of nationality: A preliminary report'. Language Policy 2(2): 179-199. 2003 (with Mark Harvey) ‘Word structure in Australian languages.’ Australian Journal of Linguistics 23, 1. 3-34. 2002 ‘How referential is agreement? The interpretation of polysynthetic agreement morphology in Ngalakgan.’ In Nicholas Evans and Hans-Jürgen Sasse (eds) Problems of Polysynthesis [Studia Typologica 4], 51-86. Akademie Verlag: Berlin. 2002 ‘I’m going to Where-her-brisket-is: placenames in the Roper.’ In Luise Hercus, Flavia Hodges, and Jane Simpson (eds) The Land is a Map: Placenames of indigenous origin in Australia. Pandanus Books/Pacific Linguistics: Canberra. 103-130.