Current Projects

The group is currently working on a variety of projects in various Iranian languages across all sub-fields of linguistics. Here is a list of ongoing projects that our faculty and students are working on. Please get in touch if you have questions or would like to collaborate!

 

Book:

Descriptive and comparative analysis of syntactic, morphological and phonological aspects of the five target languages.

 

Theoretical Articles:

To be submitted to linguistic journals

 

Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics

Simin Karimi, Roya Kabiri, Saman Meihami

  •     Clitic positioning in Jafi-Sorani

Clitics provide an ideal laboratory for investigating the interaction of syntax    and morphology, and in particular showcase the syntactic conditioning of post- syntactic operations

Simin Karimi, Shahriar Hormozi, Saman Meihami, Roya Kabiri

  •  (Non-active)Voice (Passive, middle, unaccusative) in Ardalani-Sorani and Persian

Simin Karimi, Jian Gang Ngui

  • Multi-wh-constructions and clitic positioning in Ossetian

Alex Hamo, Saman Meihami, Simin Karimi

  •  Split-ergativity in Balochi and Sorani

John Powell

  • Deictic clitic cycles in Pashto
  • A labeling approach to the grammaticalization of complex predicates in Pashto
  • Cliticization of the non-verbal element in Pashto

 

Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody

Amber Lubera

  • Onset Sensitive Stress in Iron Ossetian
  • The phonetic realization of nasalized retroflex taps in Pashto
  • Unifying apparently disparate stress systems in four Iranian languages (Balochi, Ossetian, Pashto, Persian)

 

Computational Linguistics

Michael Hammond 

  • Developing a text-to-speech system for Pashto