Howard Lasnik is Distinguished University Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland, where he has also held the title Distinguished Scholar Teacher.  He has been a Distinguished University Professor at the University of Connecticut and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America., He has played a prominent role in syntactic theorizing in the Chomskian framework from the Extended Standard Theory, through Government-Binding Theory, to Minimalism.  His main research areas are syntactic theory and the syntax-semantics interface.  Alongside more foundational issues of language learnability and the formal properties of linguistic theories, among the specific topics he has worked on are phrase structure, anaphora, ellipsis, verbal morphology, Case, cyclicity, and locality constraints on movement.  His publications include eight books and over 140 articles, and his presentations include 80 keynote/plenary lectures at conferences. He has supervised 62 completed Ph.D. dissertations on morphology, on language acquisition, and, especially, on syntactic theory.

Areas of Interest

  • Syntactic theory; syntax-semantics interface; language learnability
Personal Website
Howard Lasnik

Degrees

  • PhD
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Linguistics), 1972
  • MA
    Harvard University (English), 1969
  • BS
    Carnegie Institute of Technology (Mathematics and English), 1967
Research Methods
Linguistics
Research Interests
Language

Former Students

  • Student Name
    Suyoung Bae
    Current Position
    Research Professor at Dongguk University
  • Student Name
    Gesoel Mendes
  • Student Name
    Nick Huang
    Current Position
    Postdoctoral Fellow, Linguistics, University of Connecticut
  • Student Name
    Zach Stone
    Current Position
    Teaching Fellow, New York City Public Schools
  • Student Name
    Dongwoo Park
    Current Position
    Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature, Korea National Open University
  • Student Name
    Carolina Petersen
    Current Position
    Data Manager at Westat - Improving Lives Through Research
  • Student Name
    Dustin Chacón
    Current Position
    Research Scientist, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi
  • Student Name
    Sayaka Goto
    Current Position
    Lecturer, Aoyama Gakuin University
  • Student Name
    Yuki Ito
    Current Position
    Deceased
  • Student Name
    Kenshi Funakoshi
    Current Position
    Dokkyo University
  • Student Name
    Brooke Larson
    Current Position
    Researcher, Google
  • Student Name
    Alex Drummond
    Current Position
    Software engineer, Circuit Hub
  • Student Name
    Shiti Malhotra
    Current Position
    Assistant Teaching Professor, Northeastern University
  • Student Name
    Ilknur Oded
    Current Position
    Chairperson, Multi-Language Department, Defense Language Institute
  • Student Name
    Atakan Ince
    Current Position
    Computational Linguist, GroupSolver, Inc
  • Student Name
    Chizuru Nakao
    Current Position
    Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo
  • Student Name
    Jon Sprouse
    Current Position
    Professor, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Connecticut
  • Student Name
    Tomohiro Fujii
    Current Position
    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University
  • Student Name
    Lydia Grebenyova
    Current Position
    Associate College Lecturer, Director of Linguistics, Cleveland State University
  • Student Name
    Hajime Ono
    Current Position
    Faculty of Arts, Tsuda College
Dr. Howard Lasnik
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Email
lasnik [at] umd.edu