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Professor Joan Bresnan FBA

Empirical foundations of syntax; corpus and experimental studies of variation in English grammar; cognitive architectures of grammar; the dynamics of probabilistic grammar; linguistic typology; Bantu morphosyntax; lexical-functional grammar

Elected 2015

Fellow type
Corresponding Fellow
Year elected
2015
Sections
Linguistics and Philology
Website
http://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/

Current post

Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities, Emerita, Professor of Linguistics, Emerita, and Senior Researcher, CSLI, Stanford University

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