#1039 Jonathan Bobaljik: Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, and Universal Grammar

Hello everybody, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Jonathan Bobalik. He's a professor of linguistics at Harvard University, specializes in morphology, syntax, and typology, and today we're talking mostly about morphology, morpho syntax, human universals in language and other related topics. So Dr.

Bobalik, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you. Thank you for having me. So I've already had a few interviews on linguistics on the show, but actually I've never spoken before about morphology specifically, at least as far as I remember.

So could you tell us a little bit to start off with what morphology is? I mean, as someone who is interested in morphology, in linguistics, what kinds of questions are you interested in and what kinds of questions do people who work on this specific topic try to answer? Great, yes, that's a great question. It's actually sort of one of the smaller disciplines within linguistics, so it's not surprising that you haven't heard much about it.

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