Joan Bresnan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Joan Bresnan is involved.

Wolk, Christoph, Joan Bresnan, Anette Rosenbach and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi 2013 Dative and genitive variability in Late Modern English: Exploring cross-constructional variation and change Diachronica 30:3, pp. 382–419 | Article

We present a cross-constructional approach to the history of the genitive alternation and the dative alternation in Late Modern English (AD 1650 to AD 1999), drawing on richly annotated datasets and modern statistical modeling techniques. We identify cross-constructional similarities in the… read more

Aissen, Judith and Joan Bresnan 2007 Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 109–112 | Article

Aissen, Judith and Joan Bresnan 2004 Remarks on description and explanation in grammar: Commentary on Haspelmath What Counts as Evidence in Linguistics?: The case of innateness, Penke, Martina and Anette Rosenbach (eds.), pp. 580–583 | Article

Bresnan, Joan 2002 The lexicon in Optimality Theory The Lexical Basis of Sentence Processing: Formal, computational and experimental issues, Merlo, Paola and Suzanne Stevenson (eds.), pp. 39–58 | Article