Mark R. Baltin

Ph.D. 1978 (linguistics), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.A. 1975 (linguistics), Pennsylvania; B.A. 1971 (linguistics), McGill.

My research interests are in syntax, particularly those aspects of syntax which interface with semantics. In recent years, I have been examinining the nature of elliptical constructions in English and have begun comparing them in other languages, and the nature of predication that is relevant to natural language syntax. I am also interested in the syntactic aspects of lexical representation.

National Science Foundation Advisory Panel for Linguistics, 1996-1999.

National Science Foundation grant (with Paul Postal), "Extraction from Selective Islands"; National Science Foundation grant, "The Lexical Representation of Non-Local Selection"; National Science Foundation grant, "Workshop on Alternative Conceptions of Phrase-Structure."

The Structural Signature of Pronouns

The Properties of English Non-Finite Negative Complements

The Copy Theory of Movement Versus The Binding Theory: You can't get there from here

The Non-Reality of Doubly Filled Comps 
In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 41, No. 2.

Deletion Versus Pro-Forms: An Overly Simplistic Dichotomy? 
In Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 31, No.2

The Non-Unity of VP-Preposing
In Language, Vol. 82, No. 4

The Position of Adverbials
Appears in Samiian, Vida, Simin Karimi, & Wendy Wilkins, eds., Phrasal and Clausal Architecture, Syntactic Derivation and Interpretation, John Benjamins Publishing, 2007.

Is Grammar Markovian?
Invited forum lecture to the Korean Association of English Language and Linguistics (Korea University, Seoul)

A-Movement
In The Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Mark Baltin & Chris Collins (eds.), Blackwell Publishers, 2000.

Extraposition, the Right Roof Constraint, Result Clauses, Relative Clause Extraposition, and PP Extraposition
Appears in The Blackwell Syntax Companion, 2005.

Implications of Pseudo-Gapping for Binding and the Representation of Information Structure (in Word format)

Introductory Syntax Lectures
Lecture notes for NYU Linguistics V61.0013 Grammatical Analysis class.

Movement to the Higher V is Remnant Movement
In Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 33, No. 4 (2002).

The Interaction of Ellipsis and Binding: Implications for the Sequencing of Principle A
Appears in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2003).

Selection for a Surface Anaphor
A squib with Janet Dean Fodor.

The Null Content of Null Case
With Leslie Barrett.

"A Landing Site Theory of Movement Rules", Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1982)

"Do Antecedent-Contained Deletions Exist?", Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 18, No. 4

"Heads and Projections", in M. Baltin & A. Kroch, eds.

Alternative Conceptions of Phrase-Structure, University of Chicago Press (1989)

"Floating Quantifiers, PRO, and Predication", Linguistic Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 2 (1995)

"A-Movements", in M. Baltin & C. Collins, eds., Handbook of Contemporary Syntactic Theory, Blackwell & Sons