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 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1972). He joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut in 1972, and took up his present post at the University of Maryland in 2002. He retired in 2023.

Lasnik has been a prominent contributor to the syntax literature within a Chomskyan framework, and is one of only a few linguists to have co-written articles with Noam Chomsky. He describes himself as a "conservative" who often finds himself "trying to resurrect old analyses or maintain current analyses that are being supplanted." Topics he has worked on include anaphora, ellipsis, and Case theory.

Outside linguistics, Lasnik is a Scottish dancer and a table-tennis player. He has also been known as a skilled teacher, both in syntax and in dancing. Two of his semester-long classes have been transcribed as books and published, including interchanges with students. He has also written about his teaching philosophy. He has supervised or co-supervised over 65 dissertations. Provided by Wikipedia