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.
Syntax, Morphology, and Semantics
Simin Karimi, Jian Gang Ngui
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Multi-wh-constructions and clitic positioning in Ossetian
John Powell
- Deictic clitic cycles in Pashto
- Annotating and glossing Pashto corpus of news articles
- Pluractionals in Pashto complex predicates
Simin Karimi
- 'Wh-constructions in Iron-Ossetian: a black sheep in Iranian' (to be submitted to a journal)
Simin Karimi, Saman Meihami
- 'Clitic positioning and stacking in Ardalani Kurdish', (to be submitted to a journal)
Simin Karimi, Deniz Tat, Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh
- 'Additive elements and focus ambiguity in Persian and Turkish', (to be submitted to a journal)
Phonetics, Phonology, Prosody
Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh
- Movement and sentential stress in Persian
- Intonational effects in the distribution of stress-initial words in Persian
- Vowel dissimilation in Mazandarani
Computational Linguistics
Michael Hammond
- Developing a text-to-speech system for Pashto
(Last updated December 2023)