Joan Bresnan

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Joan Wanda Bresnan (born August 22, 1945 ) is an American linguist .

Joan Bresnan is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University . Together with Ronald Kaplan she developed the lexical-functional grammar .

Bresnan received her PhD in linguistics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1972 , where she studied with Noam Chomsky . In 2004 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 2015 a member of the British Academy .

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SURNAME Bresnan, Joan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bresnan, Joan Wanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American linguist
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1945