Howard Lasnik
List of John Benjamins publications in which Howard Lasnik is involved.
2025 Exceptional case-marking reconsidered Footprints of Phrase Structure: Studies in syntax in honour of Tim Stowell, Arche, María J., Jan-Wouter Zwart, Hamida Demirdache and Hagit Borer (eds.), pp. 56–75 | Chapter
Postal (1974) (with roots much earlier) analyzed ECM subjects as raising into higher clause. Chomsky (1973, 1981) instead argued that the boundary of an infinitival clause is so weak that it is as if its subject is in the higher clause for Case and other purposes. Davis (1984) proposed that it… read more
2012 Single cycle syntax and a constraint on quantifier lowering Towards a Biolinguistic Understanding of Grammar: Essays on interfaces, Di Sciullo, Anna Maria (ed.), pp. 13–30 | Article
2012 Chapter 1. Structure at the bottom Of Grammar, Words, and Verses: In honor of Carlos Piera, Torrego, Esther (ed.), pp. 5–18 | Article
Generative Semantics set out to unearth the intricacies of paradigms by applying the same computational devices that helped generative grammar account for syntagmatic dependencies. The proposal failed on empirical grounds, as paradigmatic relations lack the productivity, transparency and… read more
2004 13. The position of the accusative subject in the accusative — infinitive construction Non-nominative Subjects: Volume 1, Bhaskararao, Peri and Karumuri V. Subbarao (eds.), pp. 269–282 | Chapter
2002 9. Feature movement or agreement at a distance? Dimensions of Movement: From features to remnants, Alexiadou, Artemis, Elena Anagnostopoulou, Sjef Barbiers and Hans-Martin Gärtner (eds.), pp. 189–208 | Chapter
1999 On the Locality of Movement: Formalist syntax position paper Functionalism and Formalism in Linguistics: Volume I: General papers, Darnell, Michael, Edith A. Moravcsik, Michael Noonan, Frederick J. Newmeyer and Kathleen Wheatley (eds.), pp. 33–54 | Article