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.
1. Introduction2. Patterns of Verb Raising with Auxiliary 'be'3. Last Resort and Attract F4. Levels of Representation and the Elements of Anaphora5. Pseudogapping Puzzles6. On Feature Strength7. A Gap in an Ellipsis Paradigm8. On a Scope Reconstruction Paradox9. Some Reconstruction Riddles10. Chains of Arguments