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. 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