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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
Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2015
Subjects
Linguistics
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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Elinor Saiegh-Haddad's research interests are Arabic Linguistics, Diglossia, Literacy, Intervention, and typical and atypical language acquisition.

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Professor Anders Holmberg FBA

Comparative syntax and syntactic theory; Finnish and the Scandinavian languages; word order; null arguments; interplay of syntax and morphology; the syntax of questions and answers

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Professor Ianthi Tsimpli FBA

First and second language acquisition, multilingualism, language impairment, language attrition and language development in exceptional circumstances; the interface between language and cognition and the role of the language of education in linguistic and cognitive development

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