First International Conference on
Aspects of Iranian Linguistics


17 - 19 June 2005 Leipzig, Germany


Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology


Co-sponsored by
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute
University of Arizona
California State University, Fresno

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Participants




Plenary talks:
Mohammad R. Bateni
(Tehran University)
Recent Advances in Persian Lexicography.
Gilbert Lazard
(Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
The Iranian languages in Diachrony and Synchrony: a variegated and moving picture.
 
Session talks:
Adli, Aria
(New York University)
Persian wh-questions: word order variation.
Darzi, Ali
(Tehran University)
Persian subject control.
Dehdari, Jon & Lonsdale, Deryle
(Brigham Young University)
A link grammar parser for Persian.
Gebhardt, Lewis
(Northwestern University, Illinois )
Classifiers and Plural in Persian.
Ghaniabadi, Saeed
(University of Manitoba )
M/p-echo reduplication in colloquial Persian: an OT analysis.
Ghomeshi, Jila
(University of Manitoba)
Markedness and bare nouns in Persian.
Haig, Geoffrey
(Universität Kiel)
Remarks on the supposed passive origins of ergativity in Iranian.
Holmberg, Anders & Odden, David
(University of Newcastle & Ohio State University)
The Noun Phrase in Hawrami.
Jahani, Carina
(University of Uppsala)
Expressions of future in classical and Modern New Persian.
Johannsson, Ellert T.
(Cornell University)
Ablaut alternation in Avestan u-stems.
Karimi, Simin
(University of Arizona)
Control construction in some Iranian languages.
Karimi-Doostan, Gh.
(University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj)
The predicative nominals in complex verbs.
Korn, Agnes
(Universität Frankfurt)
Object or not object: marking of actants in Balochi ergative constructions.
Mahootian, Shahrzad
(Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago)
The Function of Preposing in Farsi: A Comparative Study.
Megerdoomian, Karine
(University of California, San Diego)
A typology of Persian complex predicates.
Mohammad, Jan
(University of Arizona)
The properties of ke in Persian.
Najafian, Arezoo
(Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
The analysis of Impersonal constructions in Persian: : an unaccusative hypothesis approach.
Nilipour, Reza
(University of Welfare Sciences & Rehabilitation, Tehran)
'Where and what' of the Persian language within pathological context.
Paul, Daniel
(SOAS London)
The 'indefinite suffix' in modern Persian is a classifier.
Paul, Ludwig
(Universität Hamburg)
The Persian suffix -ra as a general linguistic problem.
Rialland, Annie & Samvelian, Pollet
(Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Rightmost or leftmost? Accentual rules and intonation in Farsi.
Roberts, John R.
(SIL)
Scrambling in Persian: An RRG Approach.
Samiian, Vida
(California State University)
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Samvelian, Pollet
(Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle)
The Ezafe construction in Iranian languages.
Sedighi, Anousha
(University of Ottawa)
Subjecthood and Agenthood in Persian.
Stilo, Donald
(Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
Two sets of floating agreements clitics in the verbal system of Northern Talyshi.
Toosarvandani, Maziar & Farudi, Annahita
(University of California, Berkeley & Worcester College, Oxford)
Loss of Ergativity in Yazdi Modal Verbs.
Vahedi Langrudi, M. Mehdi
(Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
De-verbal compound nominalization and argument structure: potential bound compound verbal stems in Persian.
Wendtland, Antje
(Universität Göttingen)
On ergativity in Pamir languages.
 
Poster presentation:
Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows
(Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran)
The contribution of linguistics studies at the universities of Iran.
Alizadeh, Ali
(Birjand University)
Word Order and the position of direct Object in Persian sentences.
Eslami-Rasekh, Zohreh
(Texas A&M University)
Manifestations of ta'arof (Ritual Politeness) in Persian Invitations.
Fattahipoor, Majid
(Azad University, Parand)
A study of Khalaj language: variable pronunciation of /q/ under influence of Farsi.
Leschber, Corinna
(Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Iranian-Turkish-Bulgarian language contact. From a contact-semantic point of view.
Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz
(The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran)
Subjunctive mood in contemporary Persian.
Youhanaee, Manijeh
(Isfahan University)
Light verbs in Persian and English: Do they share the same properties?
 
further participants:
de Caro, Gerado
(SOAS London)
 
Dehdari, Carolyn
(Brigham Young Univerity)
 
Eslami, Mohanam
(TU Dresden)
 
Karani, Suzie
(University of Michingan)
 
Kwak, Saera
(University of Tehran)
 
Lockwood, Ron
(SIL International)
 
Nabhani, Ali
(SIL International)
 
Sarkheil, Pegah
(MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)
 
Scheuchter, Bernhard
(Graz)
 
Zandjani, Nina
(University of Oslo)
 

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