Joan Bybee
1945
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photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United States of America
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: University of Texas at Austin, University of California, Los Angeles, San Diego State University
occupation: linguist, university teacher
award received: CSS Fellow, Guggenheim Fellowship
position held: president of the Linguistic Society of America
official website: www.unm.edu/~jbybee
Joan Lea Bybee (previously: Hooper; born 11 February 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American linguist and professor emerita at the University of New Mexico. Much of her work concerns grammaticalization, stochastics, modality, morphology, and phonology. Bybee is best known for proposing the theory of usage-based phonology and for her contributions to cognitive and historical linguistics. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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