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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jonathan David Bobaljik 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 advised by Noam Chomsky and David Pesetsky. He is currently a professor at Harvard University and has previously held positions at McGill University and University of Connecticut. He is a leading scholar in the area of Distributed Morphology.
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- Morphosyntax : the syntax of verbal inflection (1995) (534)
- A-Chains At The Pf-Interface: Copies And `Covert Movement (2002) (389)
- Subject positions and the roles of TP (1996) (307)
- Two Heads Aren’t Always Better Than One (2002) (295)
- Agreement as a post-syntactic operation (2006) (256)
- The Domain of Agreement (2005) (226)
- Syncretism without paradigms: Remarks on Williams 1981, 1994 (2002) (200)
- The Ins and Outs of Contextual Allomorphy (2002) (188)
- On Ergativity and Ergative Unergatives (1993) (176)
- Universals in Comparative Morphology: Suppletion, Superlatives, and the Structure of Words (2012) (147)
- Floating Quantifiers: Handle with care (1998) (141)
- Missing persons: A case study in morphological universals (2008) (141)
- Realizing Germanic Inflection: Why Morphology Does Not Drive Syntax (2002) (127)
- Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case Checking (2006) (112)
- Interarboreal operations : Head movement and the extension requirement (1997) (103)
- Specs for subjects: the role of TP in Icelandic (1993) (101)
- Syncretism without Paradigms (2002) (91)
- Word Order and Scope: Transparent Interfaces and the ¾ Signature (2012) (72)
- Icelandic Control Is Not A-Movement: The Case from Case (2009) (67)
- Case and number suppletion in pronouns (2018) (66)
- WORD ORDER AND SCOPE : TRANSPARENT INTERFACES AND THE 3⁄4 SIGNATURE (2008) (63)
- The syntax of the Celtic languages: A minimalist approach to some problems of Irish word order (1996) (58)
- Abstracting Away from Abstract Case (2000) (43)
- Problems with Honorification-As-Agreement in Japanese: A Reply to Boeckx & Niinuma (2006) (42)
- Suspension across Domains (2013) (39)
- Gender markedness: the anatomy of a counter-example (2011) (39)
- Complex Predicates, Aspect, and Anti-reconstruction (2007) (38)
- Case in GB/Minimalism (2008) (37)
- Notes on Agreement in Itelmen (2002) (35)
- The Syntax of Reduplication (2001) (31)
- In terms of Merge : Copy and Head Movement (30)
- ABA and the combinatorics of morphological features (2018) (27)
- Comparative Studies in Word Order Variation: Adverbs, Pronouns and Clause Structure in Romance and Germanic (2000) (20)
- If The Head Fits ...: on the morphological determination of Germanic syntax (1997) (18)
- Semantic and Discourse Interpretation of the Japanese Left Periphery (2013) (17)
- Adjacency, PF, and extraposition (2006) (17)
- Suppletion: Some Theoretical Implications (2015) (17)
- MODALS, RAISING AND A-RECONSTRUCTION (1999) (17)
- Mostly Predictable: Cyclicity and the Distribution of Schwa in Itelmen (1997) (16)
- QUESTIONS WITH DECLARATIVE SYNTAX TELL US WHAT ABOUT SELECTION? 1 (2015) (15)
- Re: CycLin and the role of PF in Object Shift (2005) (14)
- Itelmen plural diminutives: A belated reply to Perlmutter 1988 (2005) (13)
- Assimilation in the Inuit Languages and the Place of the Uvular Nasal (1996) (12)
- Pseudo-ergativity in Chukotko-Kamchatkan agreement systems (1998) (11)
- Comparative studies in word order variation: Adverbs, pronouns and clause structure in Romance and Germanic By Christopher Laenzlinger (review) (2015) (10)
- Papers on case and agreement (1993) (8)
- SYNCRETISM DISTRIBUTION MODELING: ACCIDENTAL HOMOPHONY AS A RANDOM EVENT (2013) (8)
- Papers on language endangerment and the maintenance of linguistic diversity (1996) (8)
- Implications of Itelmen Agreement Asymmetries (1999) (8)
- Preface: on the morphosemantics of agreement features (2011) (8)
- Pronominal Suppletion: Case and Number∗ (2015) (8)
- Itelmen reduplication: Edge-In association and lexical stratification (2006) (8)
- Fact and Fiction in Icelandic Control (2007) (7)
- The Limits of Deponency: A Chukotko-centric Perspective* (2007) (5)
- Allomorphy and Vocabulary Insertion∗ (2019) (4)
- Shifting objects and procrastinating subjects (1996) (2)
- Gender asymmetries in ellipsis: An experimental comparison of markedness and frequency accounts in English (2021) (2)
- The lexical core of a complex functional affix: Russian baby diminutive -onok (2022) (1)
- Disharmony and decay: Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century (2018) (1)
- Thanks to Reviewers Remerciements aux évaluateurs (2018) (0)
- Semantic Incorporation and Indefinite Descriptions: Semantic and Syntactic Aspects of Noun Incorporation in West Greenlandic (review) (2002) (0)
- Case-driven plural suppletion in Barguzin Buryat: A conflict between *ABA and case containment* (2019) (0)
- 1 DRAFT COMMENTS WELCOME (2001) (0)
- Book Review:Quantification in Natural Languages Emmon Bach, Eloise Jelinek, Angelika Kratzer, Barbara H. Partee (1997) (0)
- Fake indexicals, binding, and the PCC (2019) (0)
- THE ANATOMY OF A COUNTER-EXAMPLE* (2009) (0)
- Papers from the Third Student Conference in Linguistics, 1991 (1991) (0)
- 1 DRAFT COMMENTS WELCOME (2001) (0)
- Case and number suppletion in pronouns (2018) (0)
- Book Review:Microparametric Syntax and Dialect Variation James R. Black, Virginia Montapanyane (2000) (0)
- Chapter 11 On a “ make-believe ” argument for Case Theory (2017) (0)
- Book Review:Siberian Yupik Eskimo: The Language and Its Contacts with Chukchi Willem Joseph de Reuse (1995) (0)
- full title:Eccentric Agreement and Multiple Case-Checking (2004) (0)
- Acknowledgements / Remerciements (1999) (0)
- EVENT BINDER IN THE ASPP1 (2016) (0)
- ACADEMIC HONOURS AND FELLOWSHIPS (2015) (0)
- Publications Received (1893) (0)
- TWO SUBTYPES OF SO-CALLED (2005) (0)
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