Mark Aronoff

I have been on the Stony Brook faculty since receiving my Ph.D. My research touches on almost all aspects of morphology and its relations to phonology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics. I have used a wide variety of methods in my work, ranging from traditional morphological analysis of both primary and secondary data from a wide variety of languages to lexical decision experiments to dictionary-based counting. As part of an international research team, I have had the great fortune to spend over a decade studying Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language, a language that was created from nothing by four deaf siblings in a village in the Negev Desert in Israel. The language is now used by all the deaf members of the community and many hearing people. I maintain a secondary research interest in writing systems, especially how they relate to spoken language and linguistic awareness. I am also dedicated to innovative methods in linguistics education, especially in the development of online asynchronous courses at all levels. I have served in a number of administration positions at Stony Brook and have held several editorial positions at international journals and reference publications.