Jonathan David Bobaljik (/ˈbɔːbəlɪk/) 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[2] advised by Noam Chomsky and David Pesetsky.
[4] He is a leading scholar in the area of Distributed Morphology.
[5] 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.
[6] Bobaljik has worked extensively on the critically endangered Itelmen language.