Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-415-18194-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 479 g

Reihe: Routledge Leading Linguists

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lasnik, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.