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