Jonathan Bobaljik

Jonathan David Bobaljik
Occupation	Linguist
Academic background
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD)
Thesis	Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection (1995)
Doctoral advisor	David Pesetsky Noam Chomsky
Academic work
Discipline	Morphology Syntax Typology
Sub-discipline	Distributed Morphology
Institutions	Harvard University University of Connecticut McGill University
Notable ideas	Comparative-Superlative Generalization
Website	scholar.harvard.edu/bobaljik/home

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 advised by Noam Chomsky and David Pesetsky. He is currently a professor at Harvard University and has previously held positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut. He is a leading scholar in the area of Distributed Morphology.

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.

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

References

Selected works

• 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. doi:10.1023/A:1015059006439. S2CID 48014761.
• Bobaljik, Jonathan David; Wurmbrand, Susi (2002). "Notes on agreement in Itelmen". Linguistic Discovery. 1 (1). doi:10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.21.
• Bobaljik, Jonathan D. (2006a). "Paradigms (Optimal and Otherwise): A case for scepticism". In Bachrach, A.; Nevins, A.I. (eds.). Inflectional Identity. Oxford University Press. doi:10.7282/T34Q7RZW.
• Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2006b). "Itelmen Reduplication: Edge-In Association and Lexical Stratification". Journal of Linguistics. 42 (1): 1–23. doi:10.1017/S0022226705003671. S2CID 33194391.
• Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2008). "Where's phi? Agreement as a post-syntactic operation". Phi-Theory: Phi features across interfaces and modules (PDF). pp. 295–328.
• 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.

External links

• Jonathan Bobaljik publications indexed by Google Scholar