Norbert Hornstein is professor emeritus of linguistics at the
University of Maryland
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the Univ ...
. Working within a
generative framework, he has worked on the nature of
logical form
In logic, the logical form of a statement is a precisely specified semantic version of that statement in a formal system. Informally, the logical form attempts to formalize a possibly ambiguous statement into a statement with a precise, unamb ...
, and has recently proposed that
control should, like
raising, be analyzed in terms of movement.
Hornstein graduated from
McGill University
McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...
in 1975 and received his Ph.D. from
Harvard University
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in 1979. He was an assistant professor at
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...
, and has been at the University of Maryland since 1983.
External links
Homepageat Maryland
Syntacticians
Linguists from the United States
Jewish linguists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
McGill University alumni
Harvard University alumni
University of Maryland, College Park faculty
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