NACIL 3 Program
Location: UCLA Royce Hall 306 & 314
Anoop Mahajan & Vida Samiian
Saloumeh Gholami (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Title: Language Contact in Written Texts: Exploring the Hidden Treasures of Zoroastrian Dari and Its Interactions with Persian
Time | Talk | Speaker |
11:00-11:30 | Connecting the Persian-speaking world through Transliteration [slides] | Rayyan Merchant (University of Florida) Kevin Tang (Heinrich-Heine University Duesseldorf) |
11:30-12:00 | Royal we and Deferential you: Historical Development of Social Deixis in Old and Middle Persian [handout] | Narges Nematollahi |
12:00-12:30 | Predicative possession and its evolution in Early & Classical New Persian (8-19th centuries) [slides] | Agnes Lenepveu-Hotz |
Time | Talk | Speakers |
11:00-11:30 | Songül Gündoğdu (Muş Alparslan University) Arsalan Kahnemuyipour (University of Toronto) Marcel den Dikken (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) | |
11:30-12:00 | Is Persian a voice-bundling language? [slides] | Shahriar Hormozi (University of Arizona) |
12:00-12:30 | Taieba Tawakoli (MIT) |
Amir Anvari (MIT)
Title: On (Persian) Ordinals
5:15-5:45 | Business meeting [Royce Hall 314]
Ali Darzi (University of Tehran)
Title: Mood Selection in Persian: Syntax or Semantics?
Time | Talk | Speaker |
11:00-11:30 | Generic sentences in a differential-object marking language: The case of Persian | Fereshteh Modarresi |
11:30-12:00 | Maryam Mohammadi (Konstanz University) | |
12:00-12:30 | On declarative and polar complements in Persian [slides] | Valentina Bianchi Afsaneh Mohammadi |
Time | Talk | Speaker |
11:00-11:30 | Number, definiteness, and compounding in Ardalaani (Central) Kurdish [handout] | Samuel Jambrovic Arsalan Kahnemuyipour |
11:30-12:00 | Non-active Voices in Kurdish and Baxtiari: Filling the Gap [handout] | Atefeh Shahbazi |
12.00-12.30 | Passives in Southern Balochi [handout] | Alexander Hamo, |
Time | Talk | Speaker |
2:00-2:30 | A Contrastive Hierarchy for Vowels in Southern Tati: Takestani Dialect [slides] | Neda Taherkhani, Scott Nelson, Jeffrey Heinz |
2:30-3:00 | Sentential Stress and the origins of radif in Persian poetry [slides] | Mohsen Mahdavi |
3:00-3:30 | An acoustic analysis of glutural fricatives in Arabic, Armenian, and Kurdish [online] | Koorosh Ariyaee Chahla Ben-Ammar Talia Tahtadjian Alexei Kochetov, |
Time | Talk | Speaker |
2:00-2:30 | Long-distance allomorphy in Tati verbs [slides] | Neda Taherkhani, Hossep Dolatian |
2:30-3:00 | Comprehension of Subject and Object Who- and Which-Questions in Monolingual and Bilingual Farsi-speaking adults [slides] | Tina Ghaemi, Anamaria Bentea (University of Konstanz) |
3:00-3:30 | Persian Psychological Constructions: How Many Types and What Kinds [online] | Sahar Taghipour |
Angelika Kratzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Title: How to construct a speech report
Yadegar Karimi (University of Kurdistan)
Title: Labeling and the Ezafe Construction [handout]
Time | Talk | Speaker |
11:00-11:30 | Possessive experiencer complex predicates as possessed property concepts [handout] | Ryan Walter Smith, |
11:30-12:00 | Separating Definiteness from Plurality in Persian Definite Plurals [Slides] | Fatemeh Samavati Masoud Jasbi, |
12:00-12:30 | The Interruption Puzzle with the Persian Imperfective [slides] | Setayesh Dashti Daniel Altshuler, |
Time | Talk | Speaker |
11:00-11:30 | Issues with case and agreement in Southern Balochi [handout] | Alexander Hamo University of Pennsylvania |
11:30-12:00 | Periphrastic causatives in Northern Kurdish and Sason Arabic: Degrammaticalization via Contact [handout] | Faruk Akkus, Songul Gundogdu, |