Jonathan David Bobaljik
News
New: Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2026. The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Treetops, Clusivity, Allomorphy. For Proceedings of NELS 56. submitted
New: Jonathan David Bobaljik and Pavel Caha 2026 Exploring AAB patterns in degree morphology: A DM–Nanosyntax comparison. submitted.
2026 Jonathan David Bobaljik. OV∼VO in Itelmen: Information Structure and Postverbal objects in a Verb-final language. Linguistics. Supplemental material available here. Texts.
In press: Alexander D. King, David Koester, and Jonathan David Bobaljik (eds). Raven Country: Essays on Indigenous Kamchatka. Berghahn Press. Forthcoming 2027.
New: Lena Borise and Jonathan D. Bobaljik. On the prosodic realization of pre- and post-verbal objects in Itelmen. Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2026.
Recent: Xiaotian Wang and Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2025. Itelmen ejectives. submitted (under revision)
2026. Diane Lillo-Martin, Deanna Gagne, Melissa Avino, Jonathan D. Bobaljik, Susanne Wurmbrand, Ronice Müller de Quadros and Grace Keller. Linguistic characteristics of bimodal bilingual code-blending: Evidence from acceptability judgments. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. 29(2):322-335.
Recent Talks:
July 2026. Approaching Allomorphy at CreteLing.
June 2026. Let’s go: Composed Clusivity in Itelmen (and elsewhere). International Morphology Meeting 22. Budapest.
May 2026. With Lena Borise. On the prosodic realization of pre- and post-verbal objects in Itelmen. Speech Prosody 2026.
May 2026. Panel Discussant. Salzburg Comparative Syntax Workshop. Austria.
May 2026. Randolph Quirk Fellowship. Queen Mary University, London.
- Public Lecture. Universals and Variation in Linguistic Morphology: Some Kamchatkan Evidence. Slides here.
- Workshop 1: Agreement in the Itelmen Inclusive Imperative revisited: Contextual allomorphy beyond Probes and Goals. Handout here
- Workshop 2: Clusivity revisited - a parameter. Handout here
- Workshop 3: Limits on Contextual Allomorphy - no inverse. Handout here.
February 2026. With Viola Schmitt. Strengthening Lions: a role for syntactic locality in excluded alternatives. Phi & Markedness workshop. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin. Handout
November 2025. Affective Palatalization in Itelmen. 5-я конференция по уральским, алтайским и палеоазиатским языкам. Handout
November 2025. Old and New Objects: Word Order and Structure in Itelmen. Generative Linguistics in Poland. Warsaw. Slides.
October 2025. The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Treetops, Clusivity, Allomorphy. NELS 56. NYU. Handout here. Proceedings paper.
October 2025. The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Composing clusivity. Roman Jakobson Linguistic Seminar, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia. Handout here.
August 2025. Фонологический анализ ходилы Г. Г. Запоротского. Itelmen workshop. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
March 2025 The story of Elvel (Itelmen story). [Film screening & discussion]. Project leader: Tatiana Degai. Arctic Sciences Social Week/International Conference on Arctic Research Planning IV. Boulder.
Recent publications:
Paula Fenger, Maria Kouneli, and Jonathan David Bobaljik. Dominant Domains in Vowel Harmony. 2025. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.
Jonathan David Bobaljik, Maria Pupynina, and Arzhaana Syuryun, (eds.) 2023. Bogoras's 1901 Itelmen Notebooks. Fürstenburg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien. Scholarly edition of previously unpublished texts with new transcription and translations, available as free .pdf Publisher's Version. Abstract.
Jonathan David Bobaljik, David Koester, Chikako Ono, and Georgi Dmitrievich Zaporotskij. 2023. “Text-setting in an Itelmen khodila: A phonological analysis.” Language, 99, 2, Pp. e108-e134. Publisher's Version
D. Koester, J. D. Bobaljik, C. Ono, T. Degai. Itelmen savoir faire: How to compose a traditional Itelmen song. Contribution to Exhibit Gestes Habiles Du Quotidien : Les Savoir-Faire Des Peuples Sibériens, Humathèque Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France. 14 April – 26 May 2023.
Tatiana Degai, David Koester, Jonathan David Bobaljik, and Chikako Ono. 2023. “Kŋaloz'a'n Ujeret'i'n Ŋetełkila'n—Keepers of the Native Hearth The social life of the Itelmen language—documentation and revitalization.” In The Siberian World. Routledge.
Now available: Itelmen Dictionary as app. iOS version on the App Store. Android version on the Itelmen Audio-Video Dictionary site (here).
Itelmen Project Website: Itelmen Audio-Video Dictionary