Mark Aronoff

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Mark Aronoff (born January 9, 1949 in Montreal , Canada ) is a linguist and professor at Stony Brook University in the US state of New York . Aronoff is known in linguistics for his publications in the field of morphology .

Life

Mark Aronoff grew up in Quebec, Canada. In 1969 he received his Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from McGill University. In 1974 he received the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy at MIT with the dissertation Word Formation in Generative Grammar, which was supervised by the linguist Morris Halle . After completing his doctorate, Aronoff first became an assistant professor, then a full professor of linguistics at Stony Brook University, where he is currently employed.

Aronoff was President of the Linguistic Society of America in 2005, and from 1995 to 2001 he was the editor of Language , the association's journal. In 2001 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 2013 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Services

In addition to three monographs, Aronoff has published a large number of articles on the linguistic sub-area of ​​morphology, including the relationship between morphology and phonology , syntax , semantics and psycholinguistics .

With his dissertation Word Formation in Generative Grammar , he built the foundations for a generative morphology, which were laid by Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax and Morris Halles Prolegomena to a theory of word formation . In his dissertation, Aronoff advocated the thesis that morphology should not only serve as a supplier for results in other areas of linguistics, but as an independent linguistic discipline. (While morphology had an important place in the linguistics of the 19th century, it played a subordinate role in structuralism and in the beginnings of generative grammar. Bloomfield called the lexicon "an appendix to the grammar, a list of basic irregularities". ) Further essential contents of Aronoff's dissertation were the composition of the lexicon as a list of words instead of morphemes, word formation rules and the productivity of word formation processes.

Works (selection)

  • Mark Aronoff: Word Formation in Generative Grammar . MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1976, ISBN 0-262-51017-0 .
  • Mark Aronoff: Morphology by Itself: Stems and Inflectional Classes . MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1994, ISBN 0-262-51072-3 .
  • Mark Aronoff, Kirsten Fudeman: What is Morphology . 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2011, ISBN 978-1-4443-5176-7 .
  • Mark Aronoff, Janie Rees-Miller (Eds.): The Handbook of Linguistics. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford 2017, ISBN 978-1-4051-8676-6 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ User: Mark Aronoff - Scholarpedia. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Fellows of the AAAS: Mark Aronoff. (No longer available online.) American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on January 25, 2018 ; accessed on January 24, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aaas.org
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter A. (PDF; 945 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 24, 2018 .
  4. ^ Mark Aronoff | Stony Brook University Department of Linguistics. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: Current Morphology . Routledge, London / New York 1992, ISBN 0-415-00998-7 , pp. 25 .
  6. ↑ a b Mark Aronoff: Morphology: an interview with Mark Aronoff. (PDF) In: ReVEL. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy: Current Morphology . Routledge, London / New York 1992, ISBN 0-415-00998-7 , pp. 5, 11 .
  8. ^ Mark Aronoff: A Decade of Morphology and Word Formation . In: Annual Review of Anthropology . tape 12 , 1983, p. 355-375 .
  9. ↑ Andrew Spencer: Morphological Theory . Blackwell, Oxford 1991, ISBN 0-631-16144-9 , pp. 81-89 .
personal data
SURNAME Aronoff, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal