Jonathan David Bobaljik

Harvard University · Linguistics

Active 1991–2026

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Citations4.7k

Papers9311 last 5y

Funding$156k

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Jonathan David Bobaljik is a professor affiliated with the Harvard University Department of Linguistics. His research focuses on linguistic morphology, with particular attention to universals and variation as evidenced in Kamchatkan languages, such as Itelmen. He has contributed to the study of agreement phenomena, clusivity, contextual allomorphy, and the prosodic realization of objects in verb-final languages. Bobaljik's work includes phonological analysis and documentation of Itelmen, including traditional songs and language revitalization efforts. He has been involved in scholarly editions of previously unpublished Itelmen texts and has contributed to the development of Itelmen language resources, such as dictionaries and audio-video materials. His research integrates fieldwork, theoretical linguistics, and language documentation, with a strong emphasis on the Itelmen language and its morphosyntactic and phonological properties.

Research topics

Computer Science
Linguistics
Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Psychology
Physics
Statistics
Biology
Mathematics

Selected publications

Distributed Morphology
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics · 2017-02-28 · 169 citations
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Distributed Morphology (DM) is a framework in theoretical morphology, characterized by two core tenets: (i) that the internal hierarchical structure of words is, in the first instance, syntactic (complex words are derived syntactically), and (ii) that the syntax operates on abstract morphemes, defined in terms of morphosyntactic features, and that the spell-out (realization, exponence) of these abstract morphemes occurs after the syntax. Distributing the functions of the classical morpheme in th…
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Case and number suppletion in pronouns
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2018-09-27 · 112 citations
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Disharmony and decay: Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century
2018-09-10 · 98 citations
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Suspension across Domains
The MIT Press eBooks · 2013-08-16 · 28 citations
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Within the intermodular perspective of Distributed Morphology, various authors have raised the question of how the domains (e.g., cycles, phases) of one module (syntax, morphology, semantics) interact with those of others. This chapter explores one small aspect of this puzzle. Specifically, it proposes a general rubric that allows for some slippage in otherwise well-established locality domains—cases in which a well-motivated cyclic domain appears to be suspended, allowing dependencies to span a…
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Suspension across Domains
The MIT Press eBooks · 2013-07-19 · 23 citations
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Recent grants

An Integrated Morphosemantics of Agreement
NSF · $156k · 2006–2010

Frequent coauthors

Robert D. Borsley
Bangor University
155 shared
Caroline Heycock
152 shared
Colin Phillips
152 shared
Nigel Fabb
University of Strathclyde
152 shared
Geneva Laurence
University of Strathclyde
151 shared
Eric Haeberli
151 shared
Andrew Simpson
Durham University
151 shared
Janet Dean
Sussex County Community College
151 shared

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