- Howard Lasnik
Howard Lasnik (born
July 3 ,1945 ) is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Maryland.He studied at the
Carnegie Institute of Technology (B.S., 1967),Harvard University (M.A., 1969) and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1972). He joined the faculty of theUniversity of Connecticut in 1972, and took up his present post at University of Maryland in 2002.He has been a prominent contributor to the
syntax literature within a Chomskyan framework, and is one of few linguists to have co-written articles with Chomsky. [cite journal|title=Filters and Control|author=Chomsky, Noam & Howard Lasnik|journal=Linguistic Inquiry|issue=8|pages=425–504|year=1977] [Chomsky, Noam & Howard Lasnik. "The theory of Principles and Parameters". In J. Jacobs, A. von Stechow, W. Sternfield, and T. Vennemann, eds., "Syntax: An international handbook of contemporary research". Berlin: de Gruyter] Describing himself as a "conservative", Lasnik says that he often finds himself "...trying to resurrect old analyses or maintain current analyses that are being supplanted." (p. 4) [cite book|title=Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory|author=Lasnik, Howard|year=2003|publisher=Routledge]External links
* [http://www.ling.umd.edu/~lasnik/ Homepage]
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