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Jonathan Bobaljik

Jonathan David Bobaljik (/ˈbɔːbəlɪk/) is a Canadian linguist specializing in morphology, syntax, and typology. Bobaljik received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 with a thesis titled Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection[2] advised by Noam Chomsky and David Pesetsky. He is currently a professor at Harvard University[3] and has previously held positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut.[4] He is a leading scholar in the area of Distributed Morphology.[5]

Jonathan David Bobaljik

Linguist

Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection (1995)

Distributed Morphology

Comparative-Superlative Generalization[1]

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In 2012, Bobaljik published a book (Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives and the Structure of Words) on universals in comparative constructions, where he proposes the Comparative-Superlative Generalization. This book was awarded the Linguistic Society of America's Leonard Bloomfield Book Award.[6]


Bobaljik has worked extensively on the critically endangered Itelmen language.[7] He has participated in the development of an Itelmen-Russian dictionary,[8] its mobile app,[9] and is currently working on an audio and video dictionary of the language.[10]

Bobaljik, Jonathan David (1995). Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection (Thesis). Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2000). "The ins and outs of contextual allomorphy". University of Maryland Working Papers in Linguistics. 10: 35–71.

Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2002). "A-Chains at the PF Interface: Copies and Covert Movement". Natural Language and Linguistic Theory. 20 (2): 197–267. :10.1023/A:1015059006439. S2CID 48014761.

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Bobaljik, Jonathan David; Wurmbrand, Susi (2002). . Linguistic Discovery. 1 (1). doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.21.

"Notes on agreement in Itelmen"

Bobaljik, Jonathan D. (2006a). "Paradigms (Optimal and Otherwise): A case for scepticism". In Bachrach, A.; Nevins, A.I. (eds.). . Oxford University Press. doi:10.7282/T34Q7RZW.

Inflectional Identity

Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2006b). "Itelmen Reduplication: Edge-In Association and Lexical Stratification". Journal of Linguistics. 42 (1): 1–23. :10.1017/S0022226705003671. S2CID 33194391.

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Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2008). "Where's phi? Agreement as a post-syntactic operation". (PDF). pp. 295–328.

Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules

Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2012). Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, superlatives, and the structure of words. MIT Press.

Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2017). "Distributed Morphology". In Aronoff, Mark (ed.). Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Oxford University Press.

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Jonathan Bobaljik