Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA was born on August 22,1945 and is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University.
13 Facts About Joan Bresnan
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Joan Bresnan is best known as one of the architects of the theoretical framework of lexical functional grammar.
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Since then, Joan Bresnan's work has focused on LFG analyses of various phenomena, primarily in English, Bantu languages, and Australian languages.
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Joan Bresnan has worked on analyses in optimality theory, and has pursued statistical approaches to linguistics.
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Joan Bresnan has a strong interest in linguistic typology, which has influenced the development of LFG.
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Joan Bresnan served as the president of the Linguistic Society of America in 1999.
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Joan Bresnan was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2006.
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Joan Bresnan was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004.
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Joan Bresnan was honored in August 2005 with a festschrift entitled Architectures, Rules, and Preferences: A Festschrift for Joan Bresnan, published by CSLI Publications in December 2007.
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Joan Bresnan was elected a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society in 2012.
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Joan Bresnan was elected as a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 2015.
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Joan Bresnan has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a member of the faculty.
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Joan Bresnan wrote an informal and somewhat humorous account of her career and works for her ACL Lifetime Achievement Award.