Mark Aronoff

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Mark Aronoff (pron.: /ˈærənɑːf/;[1] born 1949) a native of Montreal, Quebec, is a morphologist and a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His 1974 M.I.T. PhD thesis Word Formation in Generative Grammar was published in 1976 as Linguistic Inquiry Monograph One by the MIT Press.

From 1995 to 2001 Mark Aronoff was the editor of Language,[2] the journal of the Linguistic Society of America. In 2005 he was the president of the Linguistic Society of America and involved with research on Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language.[3][4] In April 2013 he was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[5]

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  1. ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
  2. ^ Mark Aronoff (1999-11-28). "Washington Sleeped Here". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-18. 
  3. ^ Nicholas Wade (2005-02-01). "A New Language Arises, and Scientists Watch it Evolve". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-07-18. 
  4. ^ Bryn Nelson (2005-02-03). "Deaf Arab Villagers Create new Language". The Seattle Times. Retrieved 2008-07-18. 
  5. ^ http://www.amacad.org/news/alphalist2013.pdf

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