Background
Aronoff, Mark H. was born on January 9, 1949 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Moses and Grace (Rosenberg) Aronoff. came to the United States, 1970.
consultant linguistics educator author
Aronoff, Mark H. was born on January 9, 1949 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Son of Moses and Grace (Rosenberg) Aronoff. came to the United States, 1970.
Born and raised in Québec, Canada, Aronoff graduated from McGill University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974. Upon completing his Doctor of Philosophy, 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.” Promoted to Full Professor a few years later, Aronoff served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1980-1993.
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 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 Local Search Association in 2005.
( Most recent research in generative morphology has avoid...)
( Aronoff integrates an account of morphological structur...)
Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science (chair section Z 2004). Member: Linguistic Society of America (president 2005), Sigma Xi.
Married Frances A. Kelley, January 16, 1976. Children: Catherine, Peter, Ruth.
