Jonathan Bobaljik

{{short description|Linguist working on the Itelmen language}}

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| thesis_title = Morphosyntax: The syntax of verbal inflection

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| discipline = {{hlist|Morphology|Syntax|Typology}}

| sub_discipline = Distributed Morphology

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Jonathan David Bobaljik ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|ɔː|b|ə|l|ɪ|k}}) 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{{sfn|Bobaljik|1995}} advised by Noam Chomsky and David Pesetsky. He is currently a professor at Harvard University{{cite web|url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/bobaljik/home|title=Personal website}} and has previously held positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut.{{cite web|url=http://bobaljik.uconn.edu/cv.pdf|title=CV|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180508125408/http://bobaljik.uconn.edu/cv.pdf|archive-date=May 8, 2018}} He is a leading scholar in the area of Distributed Morphology.{{sfnm|Bobaljik|2017}}

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.{{cite web|title=Leonard Bloomfield Book Award Previous Holders| url=https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/leonard-bloomfield-book-award-previous-holders|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220305080502/https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/leonard-bloomfield-book-award-previous-holders|archive-date=March 5, 2022}}

Bobaljik has worked extensively on the critically endangered Itelmen language.{{sfnm|1a1=Bobaljik|1y=2000|2a1=Bobaljik|2y=2006a|3a1=Bobaljik|3a2=Wurmbrand|3y=2002|4a1=Bobaljik|4y=2006b}} He has participated in the development of an Itelmen-Russian dictionary,{{cite book|year=2021|title=ПОЛНЫЙ:ИТЕЛЬМЕНСКО-РУССКИЙ СЛОВАРЬ| author=| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331224510/https://iling.spb.ru/dictionaries/itelmen/itelmen-dictionary.pdf|archive-date=March 31, 2022|url=https://iling.spb.ru/dictionaries/itelmen/itelmen-dictionary.pdf}} its mobile app,{{cite book|first=A.P.|last=Volodin| title=Ительменский словарь (mobile Version)| editor-first1=Chikako| editor-last1=Ono| editor-first2=Jonathan D.|editor-last2=Bobaljik| editor-first3=David|editor-last3=Koester|editor-first4=Michael|editor-last4=Krauss|url=https://apps.apple.com/us/app/%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C/id1612830807}} and is currently working on an audio and video dictionary of the language.{{cite web|url=https://itelmen.fas.harvard.edu/iavd/en/|title=Itelmen Audio Video Dictionary}}