Bio

Available at https://web.stanford.edu/~bresnan/

Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Linguistics

Program Affiliations

  • Symbolic Systems Program

Contact

  • Academic
    bresnan@stanford.edu
    University - Emeritus faculty Department: Linguistics Position: Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council
    • CSLI, Cordura 205
    • Stanford,  California  94305 
    (650) 723-5666 (fax)

Additional Info

  • Mail Code: 2150

All Publications

  • FORMAL GRAMMAR, USAGE PROBABILITIES, AND AUXILIARY CONTRACTION LANGUAGE Bresnan, J. 2021; 97 (1): 108-150

    View details for DOI 10.1353/lan.2021.0003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000652070900009

  • Generating data as a proxy for unavailable corpus data: the contextualized sentence completion task CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Ford, M., Bresnan, J. 2015; 11 (1): 187-224

    View details for DOI 10.1515/cllt-2015-0018

    View details for Web of Science ID 000353590600007

  • Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English Exploring cross-constructional variation and change DIACHRONICA Wolk, C., Bresnan, J., Rosenbach, A., Szmrecsanyi, B. 2013; 30 (3): 382-419

    View details for DOI 10.1075/dia.30.3.04wol

    View details for Web of Science ID 000327447600004

  • The effects of construction probability on word durations during spontaneous incremental sentence production JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE Kuperman, V., Bresnan, J. 2012; 66 (4): 588-611

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.jml.2012.04.003

    View details for Web of Science ID 000306673400005

  • A statistical model of the grammatical choices in child production of dative sentences LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES de Marneffe, M., Grimm, S., Arnon, I., Kirby, S., Bresnan, J. 2012; 27 (1): 25-61

    View details for DOI 10.1080/01690965.2010.542651

    View details for Web of Science ID 000302402000002

  • The dative alternation in African American English: Researching syntactic variation and change across sociolinguistic datasets CORPUS LINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC THEORY Kendall, T., Bresnan, J., Van Herk, G. 2011; 7 (2): 229-244

    View details for DOI 10.1515/CLLT.2011.011

    View details for Web of Science ID 000297581300003

  • PREDICTING SYNTAX: PROCESSING DATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS IN AMERICAN AND AUSTRALIAN VARIETIES OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE Bresnan, J., Ford, M. 2010; 86 (1): 168-213

    View details for Web of Science ID 000276038300005

  • Gradient grammar: An effect of animacy on the syntax of give in New Zealand and American English LINGUA Bresnan, J., Hay, J. 2008; 118 (2): 245-259

    View details for DOI 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.02.007

    View details for Web of Science ID 000253038900008

  • Typology in variation: a probabilistic approach to be and n't in the Survey of English Dialects ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS Bresnan, J., Deo, A., Sharma, D. 2007; 11: 301-346

    View details for DOI 10.1017/S1360674307002274

    View details for Web of Science ID 000248507000004

  • Spoken syntax: The phonetics of giving a hand in New Zealand English LINGUISTIC REVIEW Hay, J., Bresnan, J. 2006; 23 (3): 321-349

    View details for DOI 10.1515/TLR.2006.013

    View details for Web of Science ID 000242397000007

  • Optimality and functionality: Objections and refutations NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY Bresnan, J., Aissen, J. 2002; 20 (1): 81-95

    View details for Web of Science ID 000175464000003

  • The emergence of the unmarked pronoun Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop Bresnan, J. M I T PRESS. 2001: 113–142

    View details for Web of Science ID 000175994700005

  • Morphology competes with syntax: Explaining typological variation in weak crossover effects Workshop on Optimality in Syntax Bresnan, J. M I T PRESS. 1998: 59–92

    View details for Web of Science ID 000074148100004

  • Non-configurationality in Australian aboriginal languages NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY Austin, P., Bresnan, J. 1996; 14 (2): 215-268

    View details for Web of Science ID A1996UX45400001

  • THE LEXICAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLE - EVIDENCE FROM BANTU Meeting of the Formal-Linguistics-Society-of-Mid-America Bresnan, J., MCHOMBO, S. A. KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL. 1995: 181–254

    View details for Web of Science ID A1995RB06300001

  • Category mismatches 25th Anniversary of the Annual Conference on African Linguistics Bresnan, J. AFRICA WORLD PRESS. 1995: 19–46

    View details for Web of Science ID A1995BF44R00002

  • LOCATIVE INVERSION AND THE ARCHITECTURE OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR LANGUAGE Bresnan, J. 1994; 70 (1): 72-131

    View details for Web of Science ID A1994NG42600003

  • THE THEMATIC HIERARCHY AND LOCATIVE INVERSION IN UG - A REPLY SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS Bresnan, J., KANERVA, J. M. 1992; 26: 111-125

    View details for Web of Science ID A1992MD69800007

  • THE THEMATIC HIERARCHY AND LOCATIVE INVERSION IN UG - A REPLY WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX AND THE LEXICON Bresnan, J., KANERVA, J. M. ACADEMIC PRESS INC. 1992: 111–125

    View details for Web of Science ID A1992BZ12A00007

  • LOCATIVE INVERSION IN CHICHEWA - A CASE-STUDY OF FACTORIZATION IN GRAMMAR (REPRINTED FROM LINGUISTIC INQUIRY, VOL 20 WORKSHOP ON SYNTAX AND THE LEXICON Bresnan, J., KANERVA, J. M. ACADEMIC PRESS INC. 1992: 53–101

    View details for Web of Science ID A1992BZ12A00005

  • OBJECT ASYMMETRIES IN COMPARATIVE BANTU SYNTAX LINGUISTIC INQUIRY Bresnan, J., Moshi, L. 1990; 21 (2): 147-185

    View details for Web of Science ID A1990CV68200001

  • LOCATIVE INVERSION IN CHICHEWA - A CASE-STUDY OF FACTORIZATION IN GRAMMAR LINGUISTIC INQUIRY Bresnan, J., KANERVA, J. M. 1989; 20 (1): 1-50

    View details for Web of Science ID A1989R768700001

  • TOPIC, PRONOUN, AND AGREEMENT IN CHICHEWA LANGUAGE Bresnan, J., MCHOMBO, S. A. 1987; 63 (4): 741-782

    View details for Web of Science ID A1987K975900002