Current Prepublications

  • Joan Bresnan and Tatiana Nikitina. 2007. "The Gradience of the Dative Alternation." To appear in Reality Exploration and Discovery: Pattern Interaction in Language and Life, edited by Linda Uyechi and Lian Hee Wee. Stanford: CSLI Publications; Pdf. 21pp. A shortened, substantially revised version of Bresnan and Nikitina 2003.
  • Jennifer Hay and Joan Bresnan. 2006. "Spoken Syntax: The Phonetics of  giving a hand in New Zealand English".  The Linguistic Review 23: Special Issue on Exemplar-Based Models in Linguistics, 321-349..   41 pp. Pdf.

  • Joan Bresnan. 2007. "A Few Lessons from Typology".  Linguistic Typology 11(1), to appear. [Comments from the LSA Workshop: Typology in American Linguistics.  An Appraisal of the Field. LSA 79th Annual Meeting, Oakland, January 9, 2005.] Final revision, December 2006. 13 pages. Pdf.

  • Joan Bresnan, Anna Cueni, Tatiana Nikitina, and Harald Baayen. 2007.  "Predicting the Dative Alternation."   In Cognitive Foundations of Interpretation, ed. by G. Boume, I. Kraemer, and J. Zwarts.  Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Science, pp. 69--94. 33 pages. Pdf.
  • Joan Bresnan and Tatiana Nikitina. 2003. "On the Gradience of the Dative Alternation".   Draft of May 7, 2003.  39 pages. Pdf.

  • Joan Bresnan and Judith Aissen. 2002.  "Optimality and Functionality: Objections and Refutations".   Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 20(1): 81 - 95.  18 pages.  Postscript, pdf.

  • Joan Bresnan, Shipra Dingare, and Christopher D. Manning. 2001.   "Soft Constraints Mirror Hard Constraints: Voice and Person in English and Lummi".  Proceedings of the LFG '01 Conference. CSLI Publications.  20 pages. Postscript. Pdf.  
  • Joan Bresnan and Ashwini Deo. 2001. "Grammatical Constraints on Variation: `Be' in the Survey of English Dialects  and (Stochastic) Optimality Theory".  Draft of May 7, 2001 (minor corrections over April 25 version). 45 pages. Postscript, pdf.  
  • Joan Bresnan. Lexical-Functional Syntax. Oxford: Blackwell.  
  • Joan Bresnan. 2002. "The Lexicon in Optimality Theory."   In The Lexical Basis of Syntactic Processing: Formal,Computational and Experimental Issues, edited by Suzanne Stevenson and Paola Merlo, pp. 39 - 58.   Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  22 pages (postscript;  also available in pdf)