# Jonathan David Bobaljik ![photo](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/bobaljik/files/bobaljik18b.jpg) ## News *New:* Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2026. [The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Treetops, Clusivity, Allomorphy.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-07/main-Bobaljik.pdf "NELS 2026 proceedings") For *Proceedings of NELS 56.* submitted *New:* Jonathan David Bobaljik and Pavel Caha 2026 [Exploring AAB patterns in degree morphology: A DM–Nanosyntax comparison.](https://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/010133) submitted. 2026 Jonathan David Bobaljik. [OV∼VO in Itelmen: Information Structure and Postverbal objects in a Verb-final language.](https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/ling-2024-0131/html) *Linguistics.* Supplemental material available [here](https://osf.io/f4ec8). [Texts](/itelmen)*.* *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.*](https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2026-78) *Proceedings of Speech Prosody 2026.* *Recent:* Xiaotian Wang and Jonathan David Bobaljik. 2025. [Itelmen ejectives](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-07/Wang-Bobaljik-Itelmen-Ejectives.pdf "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.](https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728925000409) *Bilingualism: Language and Cognition.* 29(2):322-335. *Recent Talks:* July 2026*.* Approaching Allomorphy at [*CreteLing*](https://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl26/)*.* June 2026. [Let’s go: Composed Clusivity in Itelmen (and elsewhere)](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-06/IMM-sx.pdf "IMM22handout"). International Morphology Meeting 22. Budapest. May 2026. With Lena Borise. [On the prosodic realization of pre- and post-verbal objects in Itelmen.](https://doi.org/10.21437/SpeechProsody.2026-78) Speech Prosody 2026. May 2026. Panel Discussant. [Salzburg Comparative Syntax Workshop](https://sites.google.com/view/salzburg-comparative-syntax/about). Austria. May 2026. Randolph Quirk Fellowship. Queen Mary University, London. - [Public Lecture](https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/randolph-quirk-public-lecture-jonathan-bobaljik-tickets-1987838014011). Universals and Variation in Linguistic Morphology: Some Kamchatkan Evidence. [Slides here.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-05/Quirk1.pdf "Quirk1") - Workshop 1: Agreement in the Itelmen Inclusive Imperative revisited: Contextual allomorphy beyond Probes and Goals. [Handout here](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-05/Quirk-WS1-sx.pdf "Quirk-seminar1") - Workshop 2: Clusivity revisited - a parameter. [Handout here](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-06/Quirk-WS3-inverse.pdf "Quirk-seminar-3") - Workshop 3: Limits on Contextual Allomorphy - no inverse. [Handout here.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-06/Quirk-WS3-inverse.pdf "Quirk-seminar-3") February 2026. With Viola Schmitt. [Strengthening Lions: a role for syntactic locality in excluded alternatives. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-02/jonathan-viola-phi-workshop.pdf "BerlinPhiHandout")Phi & Markedness workshop. Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Berlin. [Handout](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-02/jonathan-viola-phi-workshop.pdf "BerlinPhiHandout") November 2025. [Affective Palatalization in Itelmen.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-11/AffPal-HO.pdf "aff-pal-ho") 5-я конференция по уральским, алтайским и палеоазиатским языкам. [Handout](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-11/AffPal-HO.pdf "aff-pal-ho") November 2025. [Old and New Objects: Word Order and Structure in Itelmen](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-11/OVVO-GLiP.pdf "GLiP-OVVO"). Generative Linguistics in Poland. Warsaw. [Slides](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-11/OVVO-GLiP.pdf "GLiP-OVVO"). October 2025. [The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Treetops, Clusivity, Allomorphy.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-10/Bobaljik-ItelmenInclusiveImperative.pdf "NELS-ho") *NELS 56.* NYU. [Handout here](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-10/Bobaljik-ItelmenInclusiveImperative.pdf "NELS-ho"). [Proceedings paper](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2026-07/main-Bobaljik.pdf "NELS 2026 proceedings"). October 2025. [The Itelmen Inclusive Imperative: Composing clusivity.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-10/Brno-sx.pdf "Brno-sx-handout") *Roman Jakobson Linguistic Seminar,* Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia. [Handout here.](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/2025-10/Brno-sx.pdf "Brno-sx-handout") *August 2025.* Фонологический анализ ходилы Г. Г. Запоротского. Itelmen workshop. Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. *March 2025* [The story of Elvel (Itelmen story)](https://assw.info/program/indigenous-pavilion#!). \[Film screening & discussion\]. Project leader: Tatiana Degai. Arctic Sciences Social Week/International Conference on Arctic Research Planning IV. Boulder. *Recent publications:* ![Book cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum5076/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/bobaljik/files/bogoras-notebooks-t_copy.jpg?itok=WXHv8zeX) Paula Fenger, Maria Kouneli, and Jonathan David Bobaljik. [Dominant Domains in Vowel Harmony.](https://rdcu.be/eoy8R) 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.](https://dh-north.org/publikationen/bogoras-s-1901-itelmen-notebooks/de) Abstract. Jonathan David Bobaljik, David Koester, Chikako Ono, and Georgi Dmitrievich Zaporotskij. 2023. “[Text-setting in an Itelmen khodila: A phonological analysis.](/publications/text-setting-itelmen-khodila-phonological-analysis)” Language, 99, 2, Pp. e108-e134. [Publisher's Version](https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/24/article/900096) 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, ](https://www.campus-condorcet.fr)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](/publications/k%C5%8Balozan-ujeretin-%C5%8Bete%C5%82kilan%E2%80%94keepers-native-hearth-social-life-itelmen).” In The Siberian World. Routledge. ***Now available***: Itelmen Dictionary as app. [iOS version on the App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9-%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8C/id1612830807). Android version on the [Itelmen Audio-Video Dictionary](https://itelmen.fas.harvard.edu/iavd/) site ([here](https://itelmen.fas.harvard.edu/iavd/en/resources/)). *Itelmen Project Website:* [Itelmen Audio-Video Dictionary](https://itelmen.fas.harvard.edu/iavd/)