Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

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.

• 1. Introduction2. Patterns of Verb Raising with Auxiliary 'be'3. Last Resort and Attract F4. Levels of Representation and the Elements of Anaphora5. Pseudogapping Puzzles6. On Feature Strength7. A Gap in an Ellipsis Paradigm8. On a Scope Reconstruction Paradox9. Some Reconstruction Riddles10. Chains of Arguments