Howard Lasnik is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland. He has been a prominent contributor to the syntax literature within a Chomskian framework, and is one of few linguists to have co-written articles with Chomsky.[1][2] Describing himself as a "conservative", Lasnik says that he often finds himself "...trying to resurect old analyses or maintain current analyses that are being supplanted." (p. 4) [3] University of Maryland, College Park The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public coeducational university situated in suburban College Park, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C. The flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, the university is most often referred to... Syntax, originating from the Greek words συν (syn, meaning co- or together) and τάξις (táxis, meaning sequence, order, arrangement), can in linguistics be described as the study of the rules, or patterned relations that govern the way the words in a sentence come together. ... Transformational grammar is a broad term describing grammars (almost exclusively those of natural languages) which have been developed in a Chomskian tradition. ... Noam Chomsky; photo credit: John Soares Avram Noam Chomsky (b. ...
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^ Chomsky, Noam & Howard Lasnik (1977). "Filters and Control". Linguistic Inquiry (8): 425-504.
^ 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
^ Lasnik, Howard (2003). Minimalist Investigations in Linguistic Theory. Routledge.
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