Joan Bresnan

Joan Bresnan
Born (1945-08-22) August 22, 1945
Education
Occupations
  • Linguist
  • academic
  • professor
Known forLexical functional grammar
Scientific career
Doctoral studentsLori Levin

Joan Wanda Bresnan FBA (born August 22, 1945) is an American linguist and the Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University. She is best known as one of the architects (with Ronald Kaplan) of the theoretical framework of lexical functional grammar.

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