Lexical-Functional Syntax

About Ash AsudehIda ToivonenJoan BresnanStephen Wechsler

Joan Bresnan is Sadie Dernham Patek Professor in Humanities Emerita at Stanford University and a Senior Researcher at Stanford's Center for the Study of Language and Information. One of the principal architects of lexical-functional grammar Bresnan is a former President of the Linguistic Society of America an inaugural Fellow of the LSA a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences a Fellow of the Cognitive Science Society a Fellow of the Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences and a Guggenheim Fellow.Ash Asudeh is University Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Oxford Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College and Associate Professor of Cognitive Science at Carleton University. He is a recipient of an Early Researcher Award from the Province of Ontario and the E.W. Beth Prize. He is the author of The Logic of Pronominal Resumption (2012).Ida Toivonen is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Carleton University. She has published on phonetics phonology morphology syntax and semantics; and is the author of Non-Projecting Words (2001) and co-editor of Saami Linguistics (2007).Stephen Wechsler is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Texas. He is the author of The Semantic Basis of Argument Structure (1995) and co-author of The Many Faces of Agreement (2003).