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Joan Bresnan is an American linguist and a Professor Emerita of Linguistics at Stanford University. She is most widely recognized as the principal developer of Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG), a constraint-based, non-transformational theory of syntax that she introduced in the late 1970s. Her frame...
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Lexical Functional Grammar cofounder and major syntactician; high influence across formal syntax.
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Ronald M. Kaplan is an American computational linguist whose research has addressed grammatical theory, language processing, and computational models of syntax. With Joan Bresnan, he developed Lexical Functional Grammar, a framework that represents grammatical functions separately from constituent s...
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LFG cofounder and computational linguist; strong theoretical and ACL-recognized contribution.
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