Joan L. Bybee

Professor

Department of Linguistics
University of New Mexico
Humanities Bldg., Rm. 554
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1196
(505)277-3827
jbybee@unm.edu

Research Interests

General: Phonology, morphology, typology and universals, language change, and grammaticization.

Current: Usage-based phonology, frequency effects in phonology, morphology & syntax.


Courses Taught

Spring 1997

LING 446 Language Change

LING 503 Phonological Representation

Fall 1996

LING 412 Morphology
LING 554 Seminar: Grammaticization



Selected Publications

Recent Books


Bybee, Joan and Suzanne Fleischman (eds.) 1995. Modality in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Bybee, Joan, Revere Perkins and William Pagliuca. 1994. The evolution of grammar: Tense, aspect and modality in the lanuages of the world. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Bybee, Joan L. 1985. Morphology: A study of the relation between meaning and form. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.


Recent Journal Articles

Bybee, Joan L. 1995. Regular morphology and the lexicon. Language and Cognitive Processes 10.425-455.

Bybee, Joan L. 1994. A view of phonology from a cognitive and functional perspective. Cognitive Linguistcs 5-44, 285-305.

Bybee, Joan L. and Östen Dahl. 1989. The creation of tense and aspect systems in the languages of the world. Studies in Language 13.1.51-103.

Bybee, Joan L. and Carol Lynn Moder. 1983. Morphological classes as natural categories.
Language 59.251-270.

Bybee, Joan L. and Dan I. Slobin. 1982. Rules and schemas in the development and use of the Enlish past tense. Language 58.265-289.


Recent Chapters in Books

Bybee, Joan L. 1995. The semantic development of past tense modals in English. In Bybee, Joan and Fleischman, Suzanne (eds.) Modality in grammar and discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 503-517.

Bybee, Joan L. 1995. Diachronic and typological properties of morphology and their implications for representation. In Laurie Feldman (ed.) Morphological aspects of language processing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 225-46.

Bybee, Joan L. 1994. The grammaticization of zero: Asymmetries in tense and aspect systems. William Pagliuca (ed.) Perspectives on grammaticalization.. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 235-254.

Bybee, Joan L., William Pagliuca and Revere Perkins. 1991. Back to the future. In E. Traugott and B. Heine (eds.) Approaches to Grammaticalization, Vol. II. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 17-58.

Bybee, Joan L. 1991. Natural morphology: The organization of paradigms and language acquistion. In C. Ferguson and T. Huebner (eds.) Second Language acquisition and Linguistic theory. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 67-91.

Bybee, Joan L., William Pagliuca and Revere Perkins. 1990. On the asymmetries in the affixation of grammatical material. In W. Croft, K. Denning and S. Kemmer (edsl) Studies in Diachronic Typology for Joseph H. Greenberg. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-42.

Bybee, Joan L. 1988. Semantic substance vs. contrast in the development of grammatical meaning. Berkeley Linguistic Society. 14. 247-264,

Bybee, Joan L. 1988. The diachronic dimension in explanation. In J. Hawkins (ed.) Explaining language Universals. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, pp. 350-379.

Bybee, Joan L. 1988. Morphology as lexical organization. In M. Hammond and M. Noonan (eds.) Theoretical morphology. Academic Press, pp. 119-141.

Bybee, Joan L. and William Pagliuca. 1987. The evolution of future meaning. In A. Giacalone Ramat, O. Carruba and G. Bernini (edsl) Papers from the VIIth International Conference on Historical Linguistics. Amsterdam: John Bengamins, pp. 109-122.