Norbert Hornstein Professor Dept of Linguistics 1401 Marie Mount Hall University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 Phone: (301) 405-4932 Fax: (301) 405-7104 nhornste@umd.edu

Academic Background

• B.A., First class honours, McGill University, 1975
• Ph.D., Harvard University, June 1979

Work Experience

Present Position

• 1990-onward University of Maryland, Full Professor

Previous Position

• 1986-1990 University of Maryland, Associate Professor
• 1983-1986 University of Maryland, Assistant Professor
• 1979-1983 Columbia University, Assistant Professor
• 1978-1979 Harvard University Teaching Fellow

Research Interests

Most Recent Publications

Books

• Chomsky and His Critics (forthcoming) (co-edited with Louis Antony)Blackwell, Oxford.
• Move! A Minimalist Theory of Construal (2000), Blackwell, Oxford.
• Working Minimalism(1999) (co-edited with S. Epstein), MIT Press, Cambridge.
• Logical Form: From GB to Minimalism (1995), Blackwell, Oxford.

Chapters

• On Control. (forthcoming), in R. Hendriks (ed.), Contemporary Grammatical Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.
• Does Every Sentence Like This Exhibit a Scope Ambiguity? (forthcoming) in W. Hinzen (ed.), Belief and Meaning.
• Empiricism and Rationalism as Research Programs.(forthcoming) in J. McGilvray (ed.) Papers on Chomsky, Blackwell, Oxford.
• Minimalism and Quantifier Raising. (1999) in Working Minimalism.
• Introduction to Working Minimalism. (1999) in Working Minimalism, (with S. Epstein).
• Noam Chomsky. (1999) entry in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• The Empty Category Principle.(1995), (with Amy Weinberg) in G. Webelhuth ed. Government and Binding and the Minimalist Program, Blackwell, Oxford.

Published Papers and Reviews

• PRO Gate and Movement. (2001),University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics, (with H. Kiguchi).
• Resumption, Movement and Derivational Economy. (with J. Aoun and L. Choueri) (2001), Linguistic Inquiry 32, 3: 371-403.
• Existential Constructions" (2000), BRAZIL Jl for Mary.
• On A-Chains: a reply to Brody. (2000), Syntax.
• Movement and Chains. (1999), Syntax, 99-127.
• Movement and Control. (1999), Linguistic Inquiry, 69-96.
• The State of the Article: On Control. (1997), Glott International, volume 2.8, The Hague.
• Integral Predication. (1995) (with S. Rosen and J. Uriagereka), Proceedings of WCCFL 13.
• Putting Truth into Universal Grammar. (1995), Linguistics and Philosophy.
  

Invited Papers and Conference Papers

• "On Control," (invited lecture), Brazilian Linguistics Association (ABRALIN) , Brazil, May 2001.
• "Pronouns," (invited lecture), Conference on Pronouns, USC, May 2001.
• "On Control," (two lectures), Zentrum fur Sprchwissenshaft, Berlin March 2001.
• "Obviation as Anti-Control", GLOW, Vittoria, Spring 2000
• "More on Sidewards Movement", U Conn. Spring 2000.
• "Sidewards Movement", MIT, October 1999/Georgetown November 1999.
• "Move versus Attract", (two lectures) USC 1999.
• "Is the Binding Theory Necessary", USC, February 1998.
• "Subject Control and Parasitic Gaps", USC, February 1998.
• "On Chains", Kyoto University, November 1997.
• "0-Operators", Sophia University, November 1997.
• "The Autonomy of Syntax", Keio University, November 1997.
• "Scope and A-Movement", Japan English Society, November 1997.
• "Control", Kanda University, November 1997.

Graduate Supervision

Wu, Daoping, 1992, PhD, (chair)
Martin, Stefan, 1992, PhD, UMCP (chair)
Munn, Alan, 1993, PhD,(chair)
Kim, Joanne, 1994, PhD,(chair)
Varlokosta, Spiridoula, 1994, PhD (chair) .
Efthimiou, Hariklia 1991, MA, (chair)
Scholten, C. 1988, PhD.
Zilionyte, L. 1991, MA.
MacCallum, D. PhD, UMCP (external member, Philosophy)
Gaasterland, T. 1992, PhD, UMCP (external member, Computer Science)
Stevenson, Susan, 1994,(external member, Computer Science)
Nunes, Jairo, 1995, PhD.
Schmitt, Cristina, 1996, PhD.
Chen, Qiming, 1996, PhD. (chair).
Thompson , Ellen , 1996, PhD.
Hoffman, J. 1996. PhD.
Aschan, Tor, MA, 1997,(chair).
Matsuya, A. MA. 1997, (chair)
Kim, K.S. MA. 1997, (chair).
Claverro-Dolan, C. 1997, PhD.
Chuang, Li-Ling, 1997, PhD.
Echepare, R. 1997, PhD.
Matsuya, A. 1999, PhD.(chair).
Grohmann, Kleanthes 2000, PhD, (chair).

University Service (Selected)

Admissions Director, Fall 1995-present
Member University APT Committee, 1996.
Member ARHU scholarship committee, spring 1997.
Chair, Department APT committee 1997.
Chair, Search Committee for LING/PHIL search, 1997-1998.
Member of Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow Committee, 1998.
Chair, Department APT committee for Juan Uriagereka
Member Department APT Committee for Rozz Thornton
Member Committee to advise on Graduate School Funding (Dean Harris Chair)(1999)
ARHU Apac, (2000- )
Graduate School Advisory Committee (2000- )

Other Professional Activities

Chairman Conference on Methods 1985-86.
Coordinator for "On Language", series of invited lectures Johns Hopkins, Fall 1985
Reviewer, Linguistic Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Journal of Philosophy, Behavior and Brain Science, Cognition, Language, Journal of Linguistics, MIT Press/Bradford Books, Kluwer Books, SUNY Press.
Reviewer for NSF, Canada Council, Northeast Lingusitics Society, West Coast Conference on Linguistics, Student Conference in Linguistics, Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
External Review Committee for Linguistics Department Temple University, April 1991.
Editorial Board, Syntax, 1997-
Editorial Board, Linguistic Inquiry, 1999-
Member of advisory board of ZAS, 2000-
Coordinator for Blackwell/Maryland Lectures

Courses

• LING 200 Introduction to linguistics
• LING 889B Argument Structure and Distributed Morphology (with Amy Weinberg)

• LING 312 Syntax II