Joan Bresnan

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Joan Bresnan is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan Bresnan has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Language and Linguistics, 17 papers in Linguistics and Language and 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Joan Bresnan's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (28 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (12 papers). Joan Bresnan is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (28 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (17 papers) and Phonetics and Phonology Research (12 papers). Joan Bresnan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Joan Bresnan's co-authors include Marilyn Ford, Lioba Moshi, Sam Mchombo, Jennifer Hay, Ida Toivonen, Stephen Wechsler, Ash Asudeh, Peter K. Austin, Tatiana Nikitina and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi and has published in prestigious journals such as Cognition, Language and Journal of Memory and Language.

In The Last Decade

Joan Bresnan

45 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

Lexical-functional syntax 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Joan Bresnan 1.8k 925 831 706 314 45 2.4k
Mark Aronoff 1.4k 0.8× 662 0.7× 563 0.7× 705 1.0× 528 1.7× 22 2.2k
Andrew Nevins 1.5k 0.8× 644 0.7× 610 0.7× 825 1.2× 303 1.0× 95 2.0k
Ingo Plag 1.4k 0.7× 579 0.6× 876 1.1× 762 1.1× 306 1.0× 82 2.0k
Geert Booij 1.7k 0.9× 764 0.8× 817 1.0× 1.0k 1.4× 233 0.7× 96 2.2k
Robert Freidin 2.1k 1.2× 1.1k 1.2× 527 0.6× 913 1.3× 354 1.1× 26 2.7k
Heidi Harley 1.9k 1.0× 790 0.9× 546 0.7× 705 1.0× 217 0.7× 59 2.1k
Rochelle Lieber 1.4k 0.8× 596 0.6× 490 0.6× 540 0.8× 228 0.7× 29 1.8k
Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου 2.7k 1.5× 1.0k 1.1× 862 1.0× 815 1.2× 303 1.0× 143 3.0k
Thomas Wasow 2.1k 1.1× 1.3k 1.4× 541 0.7× 856 1.2× 584 1.9× 44 3.0k
Liliane Haegeman 3.3k 1.8× 1.3k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 1.0k 1.5× 475 1.5× 114 3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joan Bresnan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bresnan, Joan. (2021). Formal Grammar, Usage Probabilities, and Auxiliary Contraction. Language. 97(1). 108–150. 6 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (2016). Theory of Complementation in English Syntax. 44 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan, Ash Asudeh, Ida Toivonen, & Stephen Wechsler. (2015). Lexical-functional syntax. Wiley-Blackwell eBooks. 234 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ford, Marilyn & Joan Bresnan. (2015). Generating data as a proxy for unavailable corpus data: the contextualized sentence completion task. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory. 11(1). 3 indexed citations
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Shih, Stephanie S., Jason Grafmiller, Richard Futrell, & Joan Bresnan. (2015). 8 Rhythm’s role in genitive construction choice in spoken English. 207–234. 10 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan & Marilyn Ford. (2010). Predicting Syntax: Processing Dative Constructions in American and Australian Varieties of English. Language. 86(1). 168–213. 207 indexed citations
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Gahl, Susanne, et al.. (2008). Syntactic Probabilities Affect Pronunciation Variation in Spontaneous Speech. 4. 1 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan & Annie Zaenen. (2007). Architectures, rules, and preferences : variations on themes by Joan W. Bresnan. 38 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan, Ashwini Deo, & Devyani Sharma. (2007). Typology in variation: a probabilistic approach to be and n't in the Survey of English Dialects. English Language and Linguistics. 11(2). 301–346. 11 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan, et al.. (2006). Agentive Nominalizations in Gĩkũyũ and the Theory of Mixed Categories. 4 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan, Shipra Dingare, & Christopher D. Manning. (2001). Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi. 49 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (1994). Locative Inversion and the Architecture of Universal Grammar. Language. 70(1). 72–131. 210 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan & Lioba Moshi. (1990). Object asymmetries in comparative Bantu syntax. Linguistic Inquiry. 21(2). 147–186. 195 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (1989). The Syntactic Projection Problem and the Comparative Syntax of Locative Inversion. Journal of information science and engineering. 5. 375–396. 6 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan & Sam Mchombo. (1987). Topic, Pronoun, and Agreement in Chicheŵa. Language. 63(4). 741–782. 12 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (1981). An approach to Universal Grammar and the mental representation of language. Cognition. 10(1-3). 39–52. 7 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (1975). Comparative Deletion and Constraints on Transformations. Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 1(1). 4. 68 indexed citations
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Bach, Emmon, Joan Bresnan, & Thomas Wasow. (1974). "Sloppy Identity": An Unnecessary and Insufficient Criterion for Deletion Rules. Linguistic Inquiry. 5(4). 609–614. 8 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (1972). Stress and Syntax: A Reply. Language. 48(2). 326–326. 35 indexed citations
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Bresnan, Joan. (1971). Sentence Stress and Syntactic Transformations. Language. 47(2). 257–257. 94 indexed citations

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