Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory

by Lasnik,Howard

• ISBN13: 9780415181945
• ISBN10: 0415181941
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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. During the past decade the minimalist approach has been highly influential in syntactic theorizing. The articles collected in this book represent empirical and technical explorations of syntactic phenomena that have implications for this minimalist approach to syntax. Taken together they display some of the changes and developments in the minimalist program during the past decade. This book is a considerable contribution to the development of the approach in its exploration and refinement of theoretical concepts, comparison of competing implementations and resurrection of much older lines of analysis. Among the central topics considered are verbal morphology, ellipsis, anaphora and thedetermination of anaphoric connection and the blending of minimalist devices with features of earlier generative accounts.

Author Biography

Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(5)
Patterns of verb raising with auxiliary ``be''	6	(16)
Last resort and attract F	22	(20)
Levels of representation and the elements of anaphora	42	(13)
Pseudogapping puzzles	55	(28)
On feature strength: three minimalist approaches to overt movement	83	(20)
A gap in an ellipsis paradigm: some theoretical implications	103	(15)
On a scope reconstruction paradox	118	(7)
Some reconstruction riddles	125	(14)
Chains of arguments	139	(19)
Notes	158	(19)
References	177	(10)
Index	187