Mark Aronoff
Mark Aronoff (/ˈærənɒf/[1]), a native of Montreal, Quebec, is a morphologist and distinguished professor at Stony Brook University.[4] Upon completing his Ph.D., 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.”[5] Promoted to Full Professor a few years later, Aronoff served as Chair of the Department of Linguistics from 1980 to 1993.In addition to his scholarly output and teaching, Aronoff has a strong commitment to professional service, within both his university and his field.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 LSA in 2005.[6] Aronoff is married to Donna Di Donato, a former assistant provost for undergraduate academic affairs at Stony Brook.