LINGUIST is very pleased to introduce Howard Lasnik, Professor of Linguistics at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, as our keynote speaker. We are genuinely honored that he agreed to participate in the on-line conference, and we thank him for it.

Prof. Lasnik has been extraordinarily productive over the last twenty-five years. Beginning with his MIT disseration, "Analysis of Negation in English" in 1972; and through such influential works as those given below--space (thankfully) allows me to mention but a few-- Prof. Lasnik has been and remains one of the most influential and respected syntacticians of his generation; from the extended- to the revised-standard theory, from Government & Binding to Minimalism. Prof. Lasnik's works are crisp, clear, and powerfully well-reasoned; as the work he presents to us today will attest.

But there is more than exemplary scholarship, for Prof. Lasnik is known and widely admired for his pedegogy (indeed, from personal experience in his courses at the University of Connecicut, I do not hesitate in using the appellation "legendary" to describe his lectures (and see Lasnik and Uriagereka (1988), A Course in GB Syntax: lectures on Binding and empty categories, The MIT Press for illustration). Many of his students have gone on to assume important places in the field themselves and continue to be inspired by him.

So, Ladies and Gentleman, we are delighted to present this work by Prof. Howard Lasnik

"On Certain Structural Aspects of Anaphora"

(VERY) SELECTED BIBIOGRAPHY:

(1973) "The Logical Structure of Reciprocal Sentences in English," with ROBERT FIENGO; reprinted in Lasnik (1989), Essays on Anaphora, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

(1976) "Remarks on Coreference," reprinted in Lasnik (1989), Essays on Anaphora, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

(1977) "Filters and Control" with NOAM CHOMSKY, Linquistic Inquiry, 11.

(1984) "On the Nature of Proper Government," with MAMORU SAITO, Linguistic Inquiry, 15.

(1988) "Subjects and the Theta Criterion," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 6.

(1990) Essays on Restrictiveness and Learnability, Kluwer, Dordrecht.

(1991) "Reciprocity and Plurality," with IRENE HEIM and ROBERT MAY, Linguistic Inquiry, 22.

(1992) Move-alpha; conditions on its application and output, with MAMORU SAITO, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.