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Citations
21543
World Ranking
4243
National Ranking
2020

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Joan Bresnan is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans several disciplines including Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Psychology, with a particular emphasis on Language and Linguistics as well as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their work focuses on topics such as Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation, Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology Research, and Natural Language Processing Techniques.

Joan Bresnan has published research mainly in the journal Language, contributing multiple papers to this venue. Recent publications include:

  • Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction, 2021, Language
  • Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction, 2021, Language

Their frequent collaborators include Ronald M. Kaplan.

The scholar's main fields of study are complemented by subfields such as Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence, enabling a cross-disciplinary approach to their research.

Joan Bresnan has been recognized with several awards throughout their career, including being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1975.

Best Publications

  • Lexical-functional syntax

    Joan Bresnan;Ash Asudeh;Ida Toivonen;Stephen Wechsler

  • The Mental representation of grammatical relations

    Joan Bresnan

  • Predicting the dative alternation

    Joan Bresnan;Anna Cueni;Tatiana Nikitina;R. Harald Baayen

  • Syntax of the Comparative Clause Construction in English

    Joan W. Bresnan

  • Linguistic theory and psychological reality

    Morris Halle;Joan Bresnan;George Armitage Miller

  • Theory of Complementation in English Syntax

    Joan W Bresnan

  • Locative Inversion and the Architecture of Universal Grammar.

    Joan Bresnan

  • Object asymmetries in comparative Bantu syntax

    Joan Bresnan;Lioba Moshi

  • Locative inversion in Chichewa: a case study of factorization in grammar

    Joan Bresnan;Jonni M. Kanerva

  • The lexical integrity principle: Evidence from Bantu

    Joan Bresnan;Sam A. Mchombo

  • On Complementizers: Toward a Syntactic Theory of Complement Types

    Joan W. Bresnan

  • Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chicheŵa@@@Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chichewa

    Joan Bresnan;Sam A. McHombo

  • Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English

    Joan Bresnan;Marilyn Ford

  • Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages

    Peter Austin;Joan Bresnan

  • Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch

    Joan Bresnan;Ronald M. Kaplan;Stanley Peters;Annie Zaenen

  • Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi

    Joan Bresnan;Shipra Dingare;Christopher D. Manning;Miriam Butt

  • Gradient Grammar: An Effect of Animacy on the Syntax of give in New Zealand and American English

    Joan Bresnan;Jennifer Hay

  • Sentence Stress and Syntactic Transformations

    Joan W. Bresnan

  • Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change

    Christoph Wolk;Joan Bresnan;Anette Rosenbach;Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

  • Control and obviation in Warlpiri

    Jane Simpson;Joan Bresnan

  • On Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chichewa.

    Joan Bresnan;Sam A. Mchombo

Frequent Co-Authors

Victor Kuperman
Victor Kuperman McMaster University
Jennifer Hay
Jennifer Hay University of Canterbury
Stephen Crain
Stephen Crain Macquarie University
Sali A. Tagliamonte
Sali A. Tagliamonte University of Toronto
R. Harald Baayen
R. Harald Baayen University of Tübingen
George A. Miller
George A. Miller Princeton University

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