Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

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.

• 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