Joan Lea Bybee is an American linguist born February 11, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and a professor emerita at the University of New Mexico specializing in phonology, morphology, cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics. She developed usage-based phonology and advanced understanding of grammaticalization, the process by which words come to express abstract grammatical meaning through repeated use, and her 1985 book Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form examined semantic patterns across fifty typologically diverse languages. In the late 1980s and early 1990s she proposed the Network Model to explain how speakers cognitively represent morphologically complex words, and she served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2004.
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Born (1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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Born (1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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Born (1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 81) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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is an American linguist and professor emerita at the University of New Mexico.
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Usage-based Phonology, Grammaticalization, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
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Bybee, Joan L. 1985. Morphology: A Study of the Relation between Meaning and Form.
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Infobox fields: Phonology, morphology, linguistic typology, cognitive linguistics
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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.
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She was named a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America in 2006. == Key publications == *Hoope
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