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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1987 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Joan L. Bybee is affiliated with the University of New Mexico in the United States and has contributed extensively to research within the fields of arts and humanities, psychology, and social sciences. Their work predominantly intersects language and linguistics, with a substantial focus on syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, and morphology.

Their research covers several key topics including:

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Natural Language Processing Techniques
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies

Bybee's frequent coauthors include Shelece Easterday, Sandra A. Thompson, Earl Kjar Brown, Carol Lynn Moder, and Critical Enquiry. They have published in various academic venues, with recurring contributions to:

  • Linguistic Typology
  • Languages
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Language Dynamics and Change
  • Folia Linguistica

Selected recent publications include:

  • The grammaticization of zero: asymmetries in tense and aspect systems (2023) published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Diachronic phonological typology: understanding inventory structure through sound change dynamics (2023) published in Linguistic Typology
  • Interaction and Grammar: Predicative Adjective Constructions in English Conversation (2021) published in Languages
  • The role of constructions in understanding predictability measures and their correspondence to word duration (2024) published in Cognitive Linguistics
  • Primal consonants and the evolution of consonant inventories (2022) published in Language Dynamics and Change

Their works often explore the dynamic processes within language structure, including phonological typology, grammatical patterns, and the impact of constructions on language predictability and duration.

Joan L. Bybee was awarded the Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1987, a recognition that highlights their contributions to linguistic research.

Best Publications

  • The Evolution of Grammar: Tense, Aspect, and Modality in the Languages of the World

    Joan L. Bybee;Revere D. Perkins;William Pagliuca

  • Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form

    Joan L. Bybee

  • Language, Usage and Cognition

    Joan L. Bybee

  • Phonology and language use

    Joan L. Bybee

  • From Usage to Grammar: The Mind's Response to Repetition

    Joan L. Bybee

  • Regular morphology and the lexicon.

    Joan Bybee

  • Frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure

    Joan L. Bybee;Paul J. Hopper

  • Frequency of Use and the Organization of Language

    Joan L. Bybee

  • Rules and schemas in the development and use of the English past tense

    Joan L. Bybee;Dan I. Slobin

  • Language Is a Complex Adaptive System: Position Paper

    Clay Beckner;Richard Blythe;Joan Bybee;Morten H. Christiansen

  • Word frequency and context of use in the lexical diffusion of phonetically conditioned sound change

    Joan Bybee

  • Modality in grammar and discourse

    Joan L. Bybee;Suzanne Fleischman

  • Morphological Classes as Natural Categories

    Joan L. Bybee;Carol Lynn Moder

  • The effect of usage on degrees of constituency : the reduction of don't in English

    Joan Bybee;Joanne Scheibman

  • Mechanisms of Change in Grammaticization: The Role of Frequency

    Joan Bybee

  • The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World

    Joan L. Bybee;Östen Dahl

  • USAGE-BASED GRAMMAR AND SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

    Joan Bybee

  • A Usage-based Approach to Spanish Verbs of 'Becoming'

    Joan L. Bybee;David Eddington

  • Three Frequency Effects in Syntax

    Joan Bybee;Sandra Thompson

  • Introduction to frequency and the emergence of linguistic structure

    Joan L. Bybee;Paul J. Hopper

  • RULES AND SCHEMAS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE

    Joan L. Bybee;Dan I. Slobin

Frequent Co-Authors

Sandra A. Thompson
Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara
Morten H. Christiansen
Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
William Croft
William Croft University of New Mexico
Diane Larsen-Freeman
Diane Larsen-Freeman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Dan I. Slobin
Dan I. Slobin University of California, Berkeley
Nick C. Ellis
Nick C. Ellis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Östen Dahl
Östen Dahl Stockholm University
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff Tufts University

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