Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

ISBN-13: 9780415340540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 208 str.

Howard Lasnik

Opis

Professor Howard Lasnik is one of the world's leading theoretical linguists. This collection of essays draws together some of his best work from his substantial contribution to linguistic theory.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Howard Lasnik is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. For over thirty 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. His most recent publications include Minimalist Analysis (1999) and Syntactic Structures Revisted (2000) with Marcela Depiante and Arthur Stepanov.