Joan Bybee

Joan Bybee
Born	(1945-02-11) February 11, 1945 (age 79)
Nationality	American
Education	University of Texas (BA) San Diego State University (MA) University of California, Los Angeles (PhD)
Known for	Usage-based Phonology, Grammaticalization, Complex Dynamic Systems Theory
Scientific career
Fields	Phonology, Morphology, Linguistic typology, Cognitive Linguistics
Institutions	SUNY at Buffalo University of New Mexico
Website	unm.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]