Lasnik Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-67532-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lasnik, Howard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

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.