Joan Bybee

Joan Bybee
Born (1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 79)
NationalityAmerican
Education
Known forUsage-based Phonology, Grammaticalization, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
Scientific career
FieldsPhonology, Morphology, Linguistic typology, Cognitive Linguistics
Institutions
Websiteunm.edu/~jbybee

Joan Lea Bybee (previously: Hooper; born 11 February 1945 in New Orleans, Louisiana[1]) 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.[2]

  1. ^ "Biographical information. www.stampers.org". Archived from the original on 2016-01-13. Retrieved 2016-01-13.
  2. ^ "Joan Bybee Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.se. Retrieved 2018-12-15.