**Mark Aronoff**

Mark Aronoff has taught at Stony Brook University since receiving his Ph.D. from MIT many years ago. The central focus of Prof. Aronoff's research has always been on morphology, the internal structure of words, a topic that he has approached from many angles and using many methods over the length of his career. For the last two decades, he has worked on sign languages, with a special interest in the emergence of structure in new sign languages. Besides his research, he has served as Editor of the journal *Language*, President of the Linguistic Society of America, and Chair of the section on Linguistics and the Language Sciences of AAAS. He is a Fellow of the Linguistic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
