Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

by Howard Lasnik

Overview

Professor Howard Lasnik is one of the world's leading theoretical linguists. He has produced influential and important work in areas such as syntactic theory, logical form, and learnability. This collection of essays draws together some of his best work from his substantial contribution to linguistic theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134675326
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/28/2005
Series:	Routledge Leading Linguists
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. For thiry years he has played a prominent role in syntactic theorizing in the Chomskian framework from the Extended Standard Theory and Government-Binding Theory to Minimalism.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Patterns of Verb Raising with Auxiliary 'be' 3. Last Resort and Attract F 4. Levels of Representation and the Elements of Anaphora 5. Pseudogapping Puzzles 6. On Feature Strength 7. A Gap in an Ellipsis Paradigm 8. On a Scope Reconstruction Paradox 9. Some Reconstruction Riddles 10. Chains of Arguments