Jonathan Bobaljik
Linguist working on the Itelmen language
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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]
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| Occupation | Linguist |
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| Education | |
| Thesis | Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection (1995) |
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| Sub-discipline | Distributed Morphology |
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| Notable ideas | Comparative-Superlative Generalization[1] |
| Website | scholar |
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]
