We are proud to announce the 2021-2022 LILA schedule.
All lectures are at 8am Arizona time unless otherwise specified.
Title: Distributional Semantics for Semantic Similarity
Presenter: Masood Ghayoomi, PhD
Affiliation: Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran, Iran
Title: On the Proper Treatment of Intensionality
Presenter: Amir Anvari, PhD
Affiliation: CNRS; MIT
Title: The Synchrony and Diachrony of Applicative Morphology in Soranî Kurdish
Presenter: Shuan Karim, PhD
Affiliation: University of Ohio
Title: Vowel Harmony in Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect
Presenter: Neda Taherkhani, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: Purdue University
Title: Cancelled
Presenter: Pollet Samvelian, PhD
Affiliation: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Title: An Experimental Paradigm for Testing the Implications of Logical Connective-Words Cross-Linguistically
Presenter: Masoud Jasbi, PhD
Affiliation: UC Davis
Title: Cross-linguistic Variation in the Strength of Counterfactuality: The Role of Tense
Presenter: Zahra Mirrazi, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Title: Investigating word order variation across Iranian languages using corpus-based typology
Presenter: Geoffrey Haig, PhD
Affiliation: Institut für Orientalistik; Universität Bamberg
Title: Ezafe in Southern Zazaki
Presenter: Songül Gündoğdu, PhD
Affiliation: Muş Alparslan University (Turkey)
Title: Quantitative Meter in Iranian Languages
Presenter: Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh, PhD
Affiliation: University of Arizona
2020-2021 LILA Speakers
Presenter: Mahmoud Bi Jen Khan, PhD
Affiliation: University of Tehran
Presenter: David Erschler, PhD
Affiliation: Ben Gurion University of the Neveg
Presenter: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Phd & Sahar Taghipour, PhD Candidate
Affiliation: University of Toronto
Presenter: Jan Mohammad, PhD
Affiliation: Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, Monterey
Presenter: Vida Samiian, PhD
Affiliation: California State University, Fresno
Presenter: Bahar Soohani, PhD
Affiliation: University of Leiden