Joan Bresnan

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Joan Bresnan is affiliated with the following schools: Reed College, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA is 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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Joan Bresnan's Published Works

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The Mental representation of grammatical relations (1985) (2106)
Lexical-Functional Syntax (2000) (1541)
Predicting the dative alternation (2007) (689)
Linguistic theory and psychological reality (1982) (667)
Locative inversion in Chichewa: a case study of factorization in grammar (1989) (652)
Syntax of the Comparative Clause Construction in English (1973) (539)
Object asymmetries in comparative Bantu syntax (1990) (473)
Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chicheŵa@@@Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chichewa (1987) (454)
Locative Inversion and the Architecture of Universal Grammar. (1994) (409)
Predicting syntax: Processing dative constructions in American and Australian varieties of English (2010) (361)
The lexical integrity principle: Evidence from Bantu (1995) (336)
Sentence Stress and Syntactic Transformations (1971) (258)
On Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chichewa. (1985) (252)
Gradient Grammar: An Effect of Animacy on the Syntax of give in New Zealand and American English (2008) (215)
Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch (1982) (206)
Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages (1996) (205)
The Gradience of the Dative Alternation (2008) (197)
Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change (2013) (195)
Is syntactic knowledge probabilistic ? Experiments with the English dative alternation ∗ (2006) (193)
Animacy Encoding in English: Why and How (2004) (140)
Syntactic probabilities affect pronunciation variation in spontaneous speech (2009) (110)
Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi (2002) (103)
Comparative deletion and constraints on transforma-tions (1975) (100)
Lexical-functional grammar (1987) (82)
of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production (2012) (79)
Theory of Complementation in English Syntax (2016) (72)
Mixed Categories as Head Sharing Constructions (1997) (66)
Spoken syntax: The phonetics of giving a hand in New Zealand English (2006) (65)
Optimality and Functionality: Objections and Refutations (2002) (61)
The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun:Chichewa Pronominals in OT (2000) (61)
The dative alternation in African American English: Researching syntactic variation and change across sociolinguistic datasets (2011) (60)
Stress and Syntax: A Reply. (1972) (60)
Control and obviation in Warlpiri (1983) (52)
Contraction and the transformational cycle in English (1978) (50)
A statistical model of the grammatical choices in child production of dative sentences (2012) (49)
Explaining Morphosyntactic Competition (2008) (49)
Retained inflectional morphology in pidgins: A typological study (2008) (47)
Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of English (2017) (45)
On the Form and Functioning of Transformations Author ( s ) : (2008) (37)
Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics (2005) (32)
Lexical-Functional Syntax: Bresnan/Lexical (2015) (31)
Typology in variation: a probabilistic approach to be and n't in the Survey of English Dialects (2007) (30)
Agentive Nominalizations in Gĩkũyũ and the Theory of Mixed Categories (2006) (28)
Rhythm’s role in genitive construction choice in spoken English (2012) (28)
A few lessons from typology (2007) (26)
Locative Case vs. Locative Gender (1991) (25)
The Thematic Hierarchy and Locative Inversion in UG. A Reply to Paul Schachter''s Comments (1992) (22)
Research Methods in Language Variation and Change: Using convergent evidence from psycholinguistics and usage (2013) (20)
The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun: Chiche!a Pronominals in Optimality Theory (1997) (19)
Lexical‐Functional Grammar: Interactions Between Morphology and Syntax (2011) (18)
Is knowledge of syntax probabilistic? Experiments with the English dative alternation∗ (2006) (18)
The lexicon in Optimality Theory (2002) (18)
Transformations and Categories in Syntax (1977) (18)
The Emergence of the Unmarked Pronoun II (1998) (18)
Polyadicity: Part I of a Theory of Lexical Rules and Representations (1980) (18)
Architectures, rules, and preferences : variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan (2007) (17)
Lexicality and Argument Structure (2015) (16)
Grammatical constraints on variation:''Be''in the Survey of English Dialects and (Stochastic) Optima (2001) (16)
A Note on Icelandic Coordination (1990) (15)
"Sloppy Identity": An Unnecessary and Insufficient Criterion for Deletion Rules (1974) (14)
The Syntactic Projection Problem and the Comparative Syntax of Locative Inversion (1989) (13)
An approach to Universal Grammar and the mental representation of language (1981) (12)
The time course of co-indexation during sentence comprehension (1987) (11)
"They whispered me the answer" in Australia and the US: A comparative experimental study (2013) (10)
A statistical model of grammatical choices in children’s productions of dative sentences (2007) (7)
Linguistics: The Garden and the Bush* (2016) (6)
Interaction between grammar and discourse in Chicheŵa (Bantu) (1993) (5)
Generating data as a proxy for unavailable corpus data: the contextualized sentence completion task (2015) (5)
Studying syntactic variation using convergent evidence from psycholinguistics and usage (2010) (4)
Modeling dative alternations of individual children (2015) (4)
(MIT Press series on cognitive theory and mental repre- sentation) (1986) (3)
Late Modern English Syntax: Culturally conditioned language change? A multivariate analysis of genitive constructions in ARCHER (2014) (3)
An Argument against Pronominalization (2008) (3)
Dissociating functor-argument structure from surface phrase structure : the relationship of HPSG Order Domains to LFG (2005) (3)
Frequency and variation in English subject-verb contraction ∗ (3)
In a land far, far away… (2011) (2)
Remarks on description and explanation in grammar (2007) (2)
Formal grammar , usage probabilities , and English tensed auxiliary contraction * DRAFT (2018) (1)
References for the Problems (2015) (1)
Branching consistency as a constraint on Zapotec syntax (2002) (1)
Rhythm's role in genitive and dative construction choice in English (2015) (1)
Formal grammar, usage probabilities, and auxiliary contraction (2021) (1)
What makes a construction predictable? Using semantic and contextual cues to better model phonetic reduction (2007) (1)
Inflectional Morphology and Phrase Structure Variation (2015) (1)
On Functional Structures: Binding, Predication, and Control (2015) (0)
Types of Bound Anaphors (2015) (0)
The Semantic Functions of the Predicate Complementizers (2016) (0)
A Theory of Structure-Function Mappings (2015) (0)
Phonetic Production Reflects Syntactic Probability: Evidence from Duration and Disfluency (2007) (0)
The retention of lexifier inflectional morphology in pidgins : Evidence for the role of markedness in pidginization (2002) (0)
DiscAnnotation '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACL Workshop on Discourse Annotation (2004) (0)
Problem Set 1 (2015) (0)
Solutions to Selected Problems (2015) (0)
JSL volume 49 issue 4 Cover and Back matter and Errata (1984) (0)
Formally Modeling the Architecture (2015) (0)
Variation and change in the individual : Evidence from the Survey of English Dialects 1 (2008) (0)
Optimality and Functionality : Objections and Refutations 1 (2002) (0)
From Argument Structure to Functional Structure (2015) (0)
On Weak Object Pronouns in English (2019) (0)
Formal grammar , usage probabilities , and English tensed auxiliary contraction * ( revised November 30 , 2019 ) (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: commentary on Haspelmath (2004) (0)
Monotonicity and Some of Its Consequences (2015) (0)
Cross-Serial Dependencies in Dutch Author ( s ) : (2008) (0)
Acknowledgment of Guest Reviewers (1999) (0)
Motivation for the LFG Architecture (2015) (0)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (2014) (0)
Problem Sets and Solutions (2015) (0)
Pronoun Incorporation and Agreement (2015) (0)
JSL volume 50 issue 4 Cover and Back matter and Errata (1985) (0)
Joan Bresnan Object Asymmetries in Lioba Moshi Comparative Bantu Syntax (2008) (0)
Topicalization and Scrambling (2015) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Endocentricity and Heads (2015) (0)
Basic Binding Theory (2015) (0)
A Formal Model of Syntactic Structure (2015) (0)

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