Jonathan Bobaljik

Jonathan David 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^[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.
^ Bobaljik 2000; Bobaljik 2006a; Bobaljik & Wurmbrand 2002; Bobaljik 2006b.
^ ПОЛНЫЙ:ИТЕЛЬМЕНСКО-РУССКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ (PDF). 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 31, 2022.
^ Volodin, A.P. Ono, Chikako; Bobaljik, Jonathan D.; Koester, David; Krauss, Michael (eds.). Ительменский словарь (mobile Version).
^ "Itelmen Audio Video Dictionary".

[FOOTNOTEBobaljik2012-1] Bobaljik 2012.

[FOOTNOTEBobaljik1995-2] Bobaljik 1995.

[3] "Personal website".

[CV-4] "CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on May 8, 2018.

[FOOTNOTEBobaljik2017-5] Bobaljik 2017.

[LSA_BLOOMFIELD-6] "Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders". Archived from the original on March 5, 2022.

[FOOTNOTEBobaljik2000Bobaljik2006aBobaljikWurmbrand2002Bobaljik2006b-7] Bobaljik 2000; Bobaljik 2006a; Bobaljik & Wurmbrand 2002; Bobaljik 2006b.

[8] ПОЛНЫЙ:ИТЕЛЬМЕНСКО-РУССКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ (PDF). 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 31, 2022.

[9] Volodin, A.P. Ono, Chikako; Bobaljik, Jonathan D.; Koester, David; Krauss, Michael (eds.). Ительменский словарь (mobile Version).

[10] "Itelmen Audio Video Dictionary".

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