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Joan Bresnan - Linguist
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Joan Bresnan

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Joan Bresnan is an American linguist and Stanford professor emerita, known with Ronald Kaplan for creating Lexical Functional Grammar in the 1970s.

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Joan Bresnan ranks #28 of 201 in the Linguist ranking, behind Bernard Comrie, ahead of Emile Benveniste.

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Joan Bresnan scores 8.74/10 (Great) on Lunoo, making it a well-rated option in the Linguist category. Lexical Functional Grammar cofounder and major syntactician; high influence across formal syntax.
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