Norbert Hornstein is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland, College Park

The University of Maryland, College Park is a top-ranked public research university located in the city of College Park in Prince George's County, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C...

. Working within a generative

Transformational grammar

In linguistics, a transformational grammar or transformational-generative grammar is a generative grammar, especially of a natural language, that has been developed in the Chomskyan tradition of phrase structure grammars...

 framework, he has worked on the nature of logical form

Logical form (linguistics)

In the field of linguistics, particularly in the minimalist program, Logical Form , refers to a mental representation of a linguistic expression, derived solely from Surface Structure. In the words of Chomsky, LF captures "those aspects of semantic representation that are strictly determined by...

, and has recently proposed that control should, like raising

Raising

Raising may refer to:*Raising , a syntactic construction*Raising , a change in a vowel towards a closer articulation*Raising , a metalworking technique...

, be analyzed in terms of movement.

Hornstein graduated from McGill University

McGill University

Mohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university...

 in 1975 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

in 1979. He conducted and oversaw research at the University of Maryland in 1983.

External links

• Homepage at Maryland