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Joan Bresnan

Structural and Theoretical Linguistics

Joan Wanda Bresnan is an American linguist and the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is best known as one of the architects of the theoretical framework of lexical functional grammar.

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Birth Year
1945 1
Role
Linguist 1
Birth Date
1945-08-22 1
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Nationality
United States 1
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English, Languages

Developed lexical-functional grammar, a syntactic theory built substantially on the analysis of English argument structure and control constructions.

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    Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA (born August 22, 1945) is an American linguist and the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University.
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    Joan Wanda Bresnan is an American linguist and the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University.
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