Mark Aronoff

Mark Aronoff is a Canadian-American morphologist and distinguished professor emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for bringing the study of word structure back to prominence in linguistics through his book *Word Formation in Generative Grammar* (1976) [1][3]. He served as editor of the journal *Language* from 1995 to 2001 and was president of the Linguistic Society of America in 2005 [1]. His research spans morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, psycholinguistics, and signed languages, including studies on the emergence of a new language among the deaf in a Bedouin community [1][3].