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Joan Bybee

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…

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Known for
Usage-based Phonology, Grammaticalization, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
Education
University of Texas (BA in Spanish and English) · San Diego State University (MA in linguistics) · University of California, Los Angeles (PhD in linguistics)
Born
(1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Fields
Phonology, morphology, linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics
Workplaces
SUNY at Buffalo · University of New Mexico

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Education · 3
Joan Bybee → San Diego State University (MA in linguistics), University of California, Los Angeles (PhD in linguistics), University of Texas (BA in Spanish and English)
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Joan Bybee → SUNY at Buffalo, University of New Mexico
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Joan Bybee → (1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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Joan Bybee → Phonology, morphology, linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics
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Joan Bybee → Usage-based Phonology, Grammaticalization, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
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Joan Bybee → unm.edu/~jbybee

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