Book of abstracts
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Conference programme
Monday, August 28
| 10:00–10:30 | Registration |
| 10:30–10:45 | Opening address |
| Chair: Oleg Belyaev | |
| 10:45–11:45 | Keynote lecture |
| Vladimir Ivanov (Lomonosov Moscow State University / Russia) | |
| Iranian studies and speech research: Achievements and problems | |
| 11:45–12:15 | Coffee |
| Chair: Agnes Korn | |
| 12:15–12:45 | Michaël Peyrot (Leiden University / Netherlands) |
| Eastern Iranian and Tocharian | |
| 12:45–13:15 | Ilya Yakubovich (Russian State University for the Humanities / Russia). |
| West Iranian ezafe as a contact-induced feature | |
| 13:15–13:45 | Martin Kümmel (Friedrich Schiller University Jena / Germany) |
| The Iranian words for ‘witness’ and the morphophonology of roots in *°a(y)- | |
| 13:45–15:00 | Lunch |
| Chair: Ludwig Paul | |
| 15:00–15:30 | Peter Ivanov (Moscow State Linguistic University / Russia) |
| Clitic position(s) in Shughni: Beyond Wackernagel | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Leila Dodykhudoeva (Institute of Linguistics RAS / Russia) |
| Noun phrase vs. compound: Morphosyntactic process in the Shughnani language | |
| 16:00–16:30 | Daniel Barry (City University of New York / USA). |
| The emergence of pharyngeal sounds in Kurmanji Kurdish | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam | |
| 17:00–17:30 | Robab Teymouri (University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences / Iran), Fereshteh Momeni (Islamic Azad University / Iran), Shahla Raghibdoust (Allameh Tabatabaʼi University / Iran) and Golnaz Modarressi (Allameh Tabatabaʼi University / Iran) |
| Foreign Accent Syndrome in a Persian-speaking woman | |
| 17:30–18:00 | Natalia Serdobolskaya (Russian State University for the Humanities / Russia) |
| Correlative pronouns in Ossetic complement clauses | |
| 18:00–18:30 | Mehrnoosh Taherkhani (Tarbiat Modares University / Iran). |
| Persian comparative correlatives are not conditionals | |
| 18:30–... | Conference dinner |
Tuesday, August 29
| Chair: Ilya Yakubovich | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Mehrnoosh Taherkhani (Tarbiat Modares University / Iran) and Farnoosh Taherkhani (Imam Khomeini International University / Iran) |
| Free relatives: Evidence from Persian | |
| 10:30–11:00 | Julia Mazurova (Institute of Linguistics RAS / Russia) |
| Structure and semantics of Ossetic preverbs | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Oleg Belyaev (Lomonosov Moscow State University / Russia) |
| The numerative in Ossetic | |
| 11:30–12:00 | Arseniy Vydrin (Institute of Linguistic Studies RAS / Russia) |
| Peculiarities of optative in Ossetic | |
| 12:00–12:30 | Coffee |
| Chair: Martin Kümmel | |
| 12:30–13:00 | Steven Kaye (University of Oxford / United Kingdom; Collège de France) |
| A morphological outlier? The verb paradigm in the Northern Talyshi of Azerbaijan | |
| 13:00–13:30 | Agnes Korn (Centre national de la recherche scientifique / France) and Murad Suleymanov (École pratique des hautes études / France) |
| Issues of microvariation: Crossdialectal differences in modal marking | |
| 13:30–14:00 | Ghazaleh Vafaeian (Stockholm University / Sweden) |
| Areal typological study on the progressive in northern Iran perspective | |
| 14:00–15:00 | Lunch |
| 15:00–17:30 | Poster session |
| Coffee | |
| Chair: Erik Anonby | |
| 17:30–18:00 | Leila Ziamajidi (Memorial University of Newfoundland / Canada) |
| The aspectual system in Luri of Doroud | |
| 18:00–19:00 | Keynote lecture |
| Geoffrey Haig (University of Bamberg / Germany) | |
| Post-predicate arguments in Iranian languages | |
Wednesday, August 30
| Chair: Vladimir Plungian | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Alexander Nilsson (Uppsala University / Sweden) |
| Evidentiality and epistemic authority in spoken Tajik | |
| 10:30–11:00 | Erik Anonby (Carleton University / Canada; University of Bamberg / Germany) and Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (Shahrekord University / Iran) |
| Linguistic diversity and language contact in Chahar Mahal va Bakhtiari Province, Iran | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Maximilian Kinzler (University of Hamburg / Germany) |
| The Khuzistan dialect of Early Judaeo-Persian and modern dialects of the region | |
| 11:30–12:00 | Murad Suleymanov (École pratique des hautes études / France) |
| The verb ‘to do’ in Upper Sirvan Tat: Towards the genesis of a new inflectional paradigm through suppletion |
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| 12:00–12:30 | Coffee |
| Chair: Leila Dodykhudoeva | |
| 12:30–13:00 | Chams Bernard (Leiden University / The Netherlands) |
| Gavruni modal verbs and impersonal constructions | |
| 13:00–13:30 | Annette Herkenrath (Justus Liebig University Giessen / Germany) |
| Impersonal constructions in language-biographical conversations and related text types in Kurmanji |
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| 13:30–14:00 | Elena Molchanova (Institute of Linguistics RAS / Russia) |
| Argument structure in the Zoroastrian Dari | |
| 14:00–15:00 | Lunch |
| Chair: Arseniy Vydrin | |
| 15:00–15:30 | Dinara Satanova (Institute of Linguistic Studies RAS / Russia). |
| The case marker -o in Northern Talyshi: morphology, semantics and origin | |
| 15:30–16:00 | Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg / Germany) |
| The case system of modern West Iranian languages in typological and historical perspective (with special reference to *radi) |
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| 16:00–16:30 | Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (Allameh Tabataba'i University / Iran) |
| Peculiar alignments in modern Iranian languages | |
| 16:30–17:00 | Coffee |
| Chair: Elena Molchanova | |
| 17:00–18:00 | Keynote lecture |
| Joy I. Edelman (Institute of Linguistics RAS / Russia) | |
| Semantic typology and the lexical evolution of Iranian languages | |
| 18:00–18:30 | Closing the conference |
Poster presentations
- Zahra Abolhassani Chimeh (SAMT Research Institute / Iran).
Close or open set? An account of morphosyntax of compound prepositions in Persian - Faryar Akhlaghi (Research Institue of Cultural Heritage and Tourism / Iran) and
Pooneh Mostafavi (Research Institue of Cultural Heritage and Tourism / Iran).
Word order typology in two dialects of Gilaki: Lahijan dialect and Rasht dialect - Shadi Davari (Tehran University of Medical Sciences) and
Mehrdad Naghzguy-Kohan (Bu-Ali Sina University / Iran).
Clitic climbing in Persian complex predicates: A Relevance Principle and grammaticalization account - Federico Dragoni (Leiden University / The Netherlands).
The oldest attested Pāzand in the Bundahišn text of the Munich manuscript M51. An orthographic and phonological analysis of a newly discovered type of Pazand - Nasim Fakoornia (University of Western Ontario / Canada).
L1 Farsi Attrition, in contact with L2 Canadian English: a focus on rhotics and stress pattern - Mehdi Fattahi (University of Tehran / Iran) and
Yasaman Choubsaz (Razi University of Kermanshah / Iran).
Phonological opacity in Southern Kurdish: A case study of counter-bleeding interaction of processes - Mehdi Fattahi (University of Tehran / Iran),
Mojtaba Gheitasi (Ilam University / Iran) and
Erik Anonby (Carleton University / Canada; University of Bamberg / Germany).
Is the labial-palatal approximant a phoneme in Southern Kurdish? - Ketevan Gadilia (Russian State University for the Humanities; Institute for Bible Translation / Russia).
On exponents of (in)definiteness in Kurdish and Lari - Tina Ghanbarian (Tarbiyat Modarress University / Iran).
Mismatching in Persian complex predicates: A focus on dual-nature of non-verbal element - Mikhail Grachev (The State Hermitage Museum / Russia).
New materials on the dialects of Hormozgan - Piruza Hayrapetyan (Central European University / Hungary).
The Armenian word ‘Ganj’: A lost and found piece of Middle Persian treasury? - Sayuri Igarashi (Osaka Prefecture University / Japan).
Frequency of the passive in Persian: A multilingual parallel corpus-based study - Hasmik Kirakosian (The Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts / Armenia).
The Morpheme xēl Composing Toponyms and Tribal Names - Katarzyna Marszalek-Kowalewska (Adam Mickiewicz University / Poland).
Disambiguation of Persian homographs with word2vec - Vahid Sadeghi (Imam Khomeini International University / Iran).
Is Persian a "stress-accent" or a "non-stress-accent" language? - Marziye Sanaati (Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism / Iran)
and Pooneh Mostafavi (Research Institue of Cultural Heritage and Tourism / Iran).
The study of adpositions as case marker in Sangesari and Shahmirzadi languages - Mortaza Taheri-Ardali (Shahrekord University / Iran).
A first account of the languages in western Hormozgan - Giti Taki (University of Sistan and Baluchestan / Iran) and
Vahid Mohamadi (University of Sistan and Baluchestan / Iran).
Morphological definiteness of nouns in Neyshabouri dialect - Elizaveta Vostokova (Higher School of Economics / Russia).
Towards the documentation of Shughni language: building on online dictionary and corpus. - Aigul Zakirova (Higher School of Economics / Russia) and
Elizaveta Vostokova (Higher School of Economics / Russia).
Reflexive pronoun in Shughni.