Mark Aronoff
{{short description|American linguist}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|January 1949}}
| birth_place = Montreal, Québec, Canada
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| citizenship = American
| nationality = Canadian
| workplaces = Stony Brook University
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D.), McGill University
| thesis_title = Word-Structure
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| thesis_year = 1974
| doctoral_advisor = Morris Halle
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Mark Aronoff ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|ær|ə|n|ɒ|f}}{{cite book |last=Bauer |first=Laurie |year=2007 |title=The Linguistic Student's Handbook |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Cff5fuWtigC |location=Edinburgh |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-0748627592 }}), a native of Montreal, Quebec, is a morphologist and distinguished professor at Stony Brook University.[https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/faculty/mark.aronoff Mark Aronoff's Stony Brook Homepage] The editor of Language from 1995 to 2001 and president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2005, he has been elected a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/faculty/mark.aronoff Mark Aronoff's Stony Brook Homepage]
Education and academic career
Born and raised in Québec, Canada, Aronoff graduated from McGill University in 1969 with a B.A. in Linguistics, completing his Ph.D. in Linguistics at M.I.T. in 1974.[http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/User:Mark_Aronoff Mark Aronoff at Scholarpedia]
Upon completing his Ph.D., Aronoff took a position as an assistant professor of linguistics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, which he has called “the only real job I have had in my life.”[http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SUNY_Board_of_Trustees_Appoints_Stony_Brook_University_Professor_Mark_Aronoff_to_Distinguished_Rank.shtml SUNY Board of Trustees Appoints Stony Brook University Professor Mark Aronoff to Distinguished Rank] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002100759/http://commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu/am2/publish/General_University_News_2/SUNY_Board_of_Trustees_Appoints_Stony_Brook_University_Professor_Mark_Aronoff_to_Distinguished_Rank.shtml |date=2013-10-02 }} Promoted to Full Professor a few years later, Aronoff served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1980 to 1993.
In addition to his scholarly output and teaching, Aronoff has a strong commitment to professional service, within both his university and his field. From 1998 to 2010, he served in the administration of the State University of New York as Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education. This overlapped with his tenure, from 1995 to 2001, as editor of Language (the journal of the Linguistic Society of America), as well as his term as president of the LSA in 2005.[https://linguistics.stonybrook.edu/faculty/mark.aronoff Mark Aronoff's Stony Brook Homepage]
Books (selected)
- {{cite book |last1=Aronoff |first1=Mark |last2=Fudeman |first2=Kirsten |year=2011 |title=What is Morphology? |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bolGMMyZVjMC |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |isbn=978-1444351767 }}
- {{cite book |last=Aronoff |first=Mark |year=1994 |title=Morphology by Itself: Stems and Inflectional Classes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PFMH1qg-Z5kC |location=Boston |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=0262510723 }}
- {{cite book |last=Aronoff |first=Mark |year=1976 |title=Word Formation in Generative Grammar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=syIXAQAAMAAJ |location=Boston |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=0262510170 }}
Personal life
Aronoff is married to Donna Di Donato, a former assistant provost for undergraduate academic affairs at Stony Brook.{{cite news|title=Donna Di Donato, Mark Aronoff|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/fashion/weddings/donna-di-donato-mark-aronoff-weddings.html?_r=0|work=New York Times|date=June 9, 2013}} He has three children from his previous marriage.
References
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External links
- [http://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/faculty/mark.aronoff Mark Aronoff's Stony Brook Homepage]
- [http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dm/theses/aronoff74.pdf Word-Structure, Aronoff's doctoral thesis]
- [http://www.revel.inf.br/files/entrevistas/revel_12_interview_aronoff.pdf Morphology: an interview with Mark Aronoff. ReVEL, vol. 7, n. 12, 2009.]
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Category:20th-century American linguists
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Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:Linguistic Society of America presidents
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