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Joan Bresnan

Joan Bresnan has 2 papers in our library, in 2004–2017, most of them on English, Syntax & grammar formalisms; often with Anette Rosenbach, Annie Zaenen, Jean Carletta.

2 papers in our library · 2004–2017

OpenAlex · h-index 39 · 120 works · 12,040 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 42 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5749

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

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 Affiliations

🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States1990–2023 · 49 paperscurrent🔬Palo Alto Research CenterPalo Alto · United States1990–1992 · 3 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1977–1983 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 1 workComputer Science · 1 workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 2 worksSyntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work

 Works by year

2010s

20171 paper

2000s

20041 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Animacy Encoding in English: Why and How (2004 · 187 citations)
    The paper argues that animacy, meaning whether a referent is human, another living or agent-like being, or inanimate, matters for practical NLP and especially for generation and translation.
  2. Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of English (2017 · 89 citations)
    The paper presents a new, freely downloadable resource for comparing syntactic variation in speech across regional Englishes.

All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi ↗no summary yetJoan W. Bresnan et al.2001 · 240 citations
  2. Animacy Encoding in English: Why and HowWorkshop on Discourse AnnotationAnnie Zaenen, Jean Carletta, Gregory Garretson, et al.2004 · 187 citations
  3. Spoken syntax in a comparative perspective: The dative and genitive alternation in varieties of EnglishGlossa a journal of general linguisticsBenedikt Szmrecsanyi, Jason Grafmiller, Joan Bresnan, et al.2017 · 89 citations

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 42 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 5 citing papers with a page here →.

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