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[1]
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[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]
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 2012.
^Bobaljik 1995.
^"Personal website".
^"CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 8, 2018.
^Bobaljik 2017.
^"Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders". Archived from the original on March 5, 2022.
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hatred of his own country". Writing in Commentary magazine, the journalist Jonathan Kay described Chomsky as "a hard-boiled anti-American monomaniac who simply...
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and equative. Jonathan D. Bobaljik (2012) contends that Ultan’s generalization is a strong contender for a linguistic universal. Bobaljik formulates the...
uvular nasal". Études Inuit Studies. 2 (1): 132–135. JSTOR 42870492. Bobaljik, Jonathan David (October 1996). "Assimilation in the Inuit Languages and the...
Karl Friedrich am 22. November 1899 (in German). Heidelberg: Wolff. Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2012-10-05). Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion...
ISBN 9780080446516. Retrieved 2022-12-10. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Bobaljik, Jonathan David (March 2017). "In defense of a universal: A brief note on case...
(Ph.D. thesis). University of Edinburg. hdl:1842/17443. Reviews: Bobaljik, Jonathan David (1998). "Review of Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut...
doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.06.002 – via Elsevier Science Direct. Bobaljik, Jonathan David (March 2017). "In defense of a universal: A brief note on case...
functional". Lingua. 114 (8): 991–1014. doi:10.1016/S0024-3841(03)00102-5. Bobaljik, Jonathan David and Susi Wurmbrand (2005). The domain of agreement. Natural...
and Luigi Rizzi, pp. 127–160. New York: Oxford University Press. Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2012). Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives...
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2024-01-03. Smith, Peter W.; Moskal, Beata; Xu, Ting; Kang, Jungmin; Bobaljik, Jonathan David (2019). "Case and Number Suppletion in Pronouns" (PDF). Natural...
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