All lectures are at 8am Arizona time unless otherwise specified.
2023-2024 LILA Speakers:
Title: The status of '-esh' in Persian: Can psycholinguistic come to help?
Presenter: Mahyar Nakhaei
Affiliation: University of Calgary
Title: Is Reverse Ezafe Ezafe in the mirror?
Presenter: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Title: The Interruption Puzzle with the Persian Imperfective
Presenter: Daniel Altshuler, Setayesh Dashti
Affiliation: Oxford University
Title: Movement and Deaccenting in Persian
Presenter: Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Title: Clitic positioning and stacking in Ardalani Kurdish
Presenter: Simin Karimi, Saman Meihami
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Title: Clitic Positioning and Stacking in Ardalani-Kurdish
Presenter: Simin Karimi (University of Arizona), John Powell (University of Arizona), Vida Samiian (CSU Fresno and UCLA)
2022-2023 LILA Speakers:
Title: Persian possessive experiencer complex predicates as possessed property concepts
Presenter: Ryan Walter Smith
Affiliation: University of Manchester
Title: The Atlas of the Languages of Iran (ALI) research programme: Recent innovations and results
Presenter: Erik Anonby (Carleton University) Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (Shahrekord University) Tara Azin (Carleton University) Mansour Bozorgmehr (Susa World Heritage Site) Elham Izadi (Bu-Ali Sina University) Mehrdad Meshkinfam (Bu-Ali Sina University) Hamideh Poshtvan (Carleton University) Mahnaz Talebi-Dastenaei (Carleton University)
Title: On development of negation in Ossetian
Presenter: David Erschler
Affiliation: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Title: The syntax of when-clauses in Persian
Presenter: Jila Ghomeshi
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Title: Split ergativity and Dependent Case in Southern Balochi
Presenter: Alexander Hamo, University of Pennsylvania and Saman Meihami, University of Arizona
Title: From the Semantics of Power to the Semantics of Politeness: Development of Epistolary Style in pre-Islamic Iran
Presenter: Narges Nematollahi
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Title: Cross-referencing oblique arguments in Kurdish varieties
Presenter: Faruk Akkus, UMass and David Embick, University of Pennsylvania
Title: A tense-based split-ergative language with ‘syntactic ergativity' and ‘syntactic accusativity’
Presenter: Talat Masud
Affiliation: University of Swabi
2021-2022 LILA Speakers:
Title: Quantitative Meter in Iranian Languages
Presenter: Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh, PhD
Affiliation: University of Arizona
Title: Ezafe in Southern Zazaki
Presenter: Songül Gündoğdu, PhD
Affiliation: Muş Alparslan University (Turkey)
Title: Investigating word order variation across Iranian languages using corpus-based typology
Presenter: Geoffrey Haig, PhD
Affiliation: Institut für Orientalistik; Universität Bamberg
Title: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Strength of Counterfactuality: The Role of Tense
Presenter: Zahra Mirrazi, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title: An Experimental Paradigm for Testing the Implications of Logical Connective-Words Cross-Linguistically
Presenter: Masoud Jasbi, PhD
Affiliation: UC Davis
Title: Cancelled
Presenter: Pollet Samvelian, PhD
Affiliation: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Title: Vowel Harmony in Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect
Presenter: Neda Taherkhani, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Purdue University
Title: The Synchrony and Diachrony of Applicative Morphology in Soranî Kurdish
Presenter: Shuan Karim, PhD
Affiliation: University of Ohio
Title: On the Proper Treatment of Intensionality
Presenter: Amir Anvari, PhD
Affiliation: CNRS; MIT
Title: Distributional Semantics for Semantic Similarity
Presenter: Masood Ghayoomi, PhD
Affiliation: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
2020-2021 LILA Speakers:
Title: Segmental and Suprasegmental Features of Iranian Balochi Dialects
Presenter: Bahar Soohani, PhD
Affiliation: University of Leiden
Presenter: Vida Samiian, PhD
Affiliation: California State University, Fresno
Title: Wackernagel Clitic Placement and Clause Architecture of Iron Ossetic
Presenter: David Erschler, PhD
Affiliation: Ben Gurion University of the Neveg
Title: Laryngeal Features in Persian Plosives
Presenter: Mahmoud Bijankhan, PhD
Affiliation: University of Tehran
Title: Deriving the split alignment in Laki
Presenter: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Phd & Sahar Taghipour, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Title: Some facts about Pashto
Presenter: Jan Mohammad, PhD
Affiliation: Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey