Joan Bybee, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetJoan Bybee
American linguist
Date of Birth: 11-Feb-1945
Place of Birth: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Profession: linguist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About 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.
- She served as president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2004.
- Much of her work concerns grammaticalization, stochastics, modality, morphology, and phonology.
- She is best known for proposing the theory of Usage-based phonology and for her contributions to cognitive and historical linguistics.
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