Thursday 16 June
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| ca. 19.30 |
informal get-together in the restaurant ALTE NIKOLAISCHULE (city center, opposite the Nikolai church)
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Friday 17 June
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| 8.00 - 8.50 |
Registration
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Entrance Hall |
| 8.50 |
Welcome remarks
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Lecture Hall |
| Session I |
Chair: Martin Haspelmath |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Don Stilo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Two sets of mobile verbal clitics in Northern Talyshi.
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Lecture Hall |
| 9.30 - 10.00 |
Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt)
Object or not object: marking of actants in Balochi Ergative constructions.
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Lecture Hall |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Antje Wendtland (Universtiy of Goettingen)
On ergativity in Pamir languages.
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Lecture Hall |
| 10.30 - 11.15 |
Coffee break
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Entrance Hall |
| Session II |
Chair: Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba) |
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| 11.15 - 11.45 |
Saeed Ghaniabadi (University of Manitoba)
M/p-echo reduplication in colloquial Persian: an OT analysis.
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Lecture Hall |
| 11.45 - 12.15 |
Annie Rialland and Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Rightmost or leftmost? Accentual rules and intonation in Farsi.
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Lecture Hall |
| 12.15 - 14.15 |
Lunch
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Cafeteria (Max Planck Institute) |
| 13.00 - 14.15 |
Poster Session 1
- Ferdows Aghagolzadeh (Tarbiat Modares University)
- The contributions of linguistic studies at the universities of Iran.
- Zohreh Eslami-Rasekh (Texas A&M University)
- Manifestations of tæ'arof (Ritual Politeness) in Persian Invitations.
- Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran)
- Subjunctive mood in contemporary Persian.
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Seminarroom H4.10 (S2) |
| Session III |
Chair: Simin Karimi (University of Arizona) |
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| 14.15 - 14.45 |
Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba)
Markedness and bare nouns in Persian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 14.45 - 15.15 |
Lewis Gebhardt (Northwestern University)
Classifiers and Plural in Persian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 15.15 - 15.45 |
Daniel Paul (SOAS London)
The 'indefinite' suffix in modern Persian is a classifier.
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Lecture Hall |
| 15.45 - 16.30 |
Coffee Break
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Entrance Hall |
| Session IV |
Chair: Vida Samiian (CSU Fresno) |
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| 16.30 - 17.00 |
Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
The Ezafe construction in Iranian languages.
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Lecture Hall |
| 17.00-17.30 |
Geoffrey Haig (University of Kiel)
Remarks on the supposed passive origins of ergativity in Iranian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 17.30-18.00 |
Annahita Farudi (Oxford University) and Maziar Toosarvandani (USC Berkeley)
The loss of ergativity in Dari modal verbs.
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Lecture Hall |
| 18.00 - 18.15 |
Coffe Break
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Entrance Hall |
| 18.15 - 19.15 |
Keynote speech
Gilbert Lazard (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
The Iranian languages in diachrony and synchrony: a variegated and moving picture. |
Lecture Hall |
Saturday 18 June
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| 8.00 - 9.00 |
Registration
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Entrance Hall |
| Session V |
Chair: Don Stilo (Max Planck Institute) |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Simin Karimi (University of Arizona)
Control constructions in some Iranian languages.
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Lecture Hall |
| 9.30 - 10.00 |
Ali Darzi (Tehran University)
Persian subject control.
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Lecture Hall |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Holmberg, Anders (University of Newcastle) and David Odden (Ohio State University)
The Noun Phrase in Hawrami.
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Lecture Hall |
| 10.30 - 10.45 |
Coffee Break
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Entrance Hall |
| Session VI |
Chair: t.b.a. |
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| 10.45 - 11.15 |
Karine Megerdoomian (University of California, San Diego)
A typology of Persian complex predicates.
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Lecture Hall |
| 11.15 - 11.45 |
Mohamad Vahedi Langrudi (Tarbiat Modares University)
De-verbal compound nominalization and argument structure in Persian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 11.45 - 12.15 |
Gh. Karimi-Doostan (University of Kurdistan)
The predicative nominals in complex verbs.
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Lecture Hall |
| 12.15 - 14.45 |
Lunch
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Cafeteria (Max Planck Institute) |
| 13.30 - 14.45 |
Poster Session 2
- Ali Alizadeh (Birjand University)
- Word Order and the position of direct object in Persian sentences.
- Majid Fattahipoor (Azad University, Parand)
- A study of Khalaj language: variable Pronunciation of /q/ under influence of Farsi.
- Corinna Leschber (Humboldt University Berlin)
- Iranian-Turkish-Bulgarian language contact: From a contact-semantic point of view.
- Manijeh Youhanaee (Isfahan University)
- Light verbs in Persian and English: Do they share the same properties?
| Seminarroom H4.10 (S2) |
| Session VII |
Chair: Karine Megerdoomian (UCSD) |
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| 14.45 - 15.15 |
Jan Mohammad and Azita Taleghani (University of Arizona)
The properties of ke in Persian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 15.15 - 15.45 |
Aria Adli (New York University)
Persian wh-questions: word order variation.
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Lecture Hall |
| 15.45 - 16.30 |
Coffee Break
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Entrance Hall |
| Session VIII |
Chair: Shahrzad Mahootian (Northeastern Illinois University) |
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| 16.30 - 17.00 |
Arezoo Najafian and Mohamad Vahedi Langrudi
(Tarbiat Modares University)
The analysis of Impersonal constructions in Persian: an unaccusative hypothesis approach.
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Lecture Hall |
| 17.00 - 17.30 |
Reza Nilipour (University Rehabilitation Sciences & School of Cognitive Science/Iran)
Where and what' of the Persian language within pathological context.
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Lecture Hall |
| 17.30 - 17.45 |
Coffee Break
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Entrance Hall |
| 17.45 - 18.45 |
Keynote speech
Mohammad Reza Bateni (Tehran University)
Recent Advances in Persian Lexicography.
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Lecture Hall |
| 19.45 |
Conference Dinner in the Restaurant of the Hotel Michaelis.
19.45 - 20.15: Elahe Mir-Djalali Omidyar (Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute)
20.15 - 20.45: Simin Karimi: Remarks about the proceedings
20.45 - 22.45: Dinner reception
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Sunday 19 June
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| 8.30 - 9.00 |
Registration
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Entrance Hall |
| Session IX |
Chair: Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle) |
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| 9.00 - 9.30 |
Shahrzad Mahootian (Northeastern Illinois University)
Discourse constraints on Inversion.
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Lecture Hall |
| 9.30 - 10.00 |
John R. Roberts (SIL International)
Scrambling in Persian: an RRG approach.
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Lecture Hall |
| 10.00 - 10.30 |
Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg)
The Persian suffix -ra as a general linguistic problem.
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Lecture Hall |
| 10.30 - 10.45 |
Coffee Break
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Entrance Hall |
| Session X |
Chair: Reza Nilipour (University Rehabilitation Sciences & School of Cognitive Science/Iran) |
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| 10.45 - 11.15 |
Ellert T. Johannsson (Cornell University)
About alternation in Avestan u-stems.
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Lecture Hall |
| 11.15 - 11.45 |
Carina Jahani (University of Uppsala/ Sweden)
Expressions of future in classical and Modern New Persian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 11.45 - 12.15 |
Anousha Sedighi (University of Ottawa)
Subjecthood and Agenthood in Persian
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Lecture Hall |
| 12.15 - 12.45 |
Jon Dehdari and Deryle Lonsdal (Brigham Young University)
A link grammar parser for Persian.
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Lecture Hall |
| 12.45 - 13.00 |
Vida Samiian, Don Stilo, Simin Karimi
Wrapping up
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Lecture Hall |