First International Conference on Aspects of Iranian Linguistics

17 - 19 June 2005 Leipzig, Germany

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-sponsored by Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute University of Arizona California State University, Fresno

Invited speakers:

Mohammad R. Bateni (Tehran University) Gilbert Lazard (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)

Organizing committee:

Donald Stilo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) Simin Karimi (University of Arizona) Vida Samiian (California State University)

PROGRAMME

Thursday 16 June ca. 19.30 informal get-together in the restaurant ALTE NIKOLAISCHULE (city center, opposite the Nikolai church)

Friday 17 June

8.00 - Registration Entrance Hall 8.50 8.50 Welcome remarks Lecture Hall

Session I Chair: Martin Haspelmath 9.00 - Don Stilo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Lecture Hall 9.30 Anthropology) Two sets of mobile verbal clitics in Northern Talyshi.

9.30 - Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt) Lecture Hall 10.00 Object or not object: marking of actants in Balochi Ergative constructions.

10.00 - Antje Wendtland (Universtiy of Goettingen) Lecture Hall 10.30 On ergativity in Pamir languages.

10.30 - Coffee break Entrance Hall 11.15 Session II Chair: Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba) 11.15 - Saeed Ghaniabadi (University of Manitoba) Lecture Hall 11.45 M/p-echo reduplication in colloquial Persian: an OT analysis.

11.45 - Annie Rialland and Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Lecture Hall 12.15 Rightmost or leftmost? Accentual rules and intonation in Farsi.

12.15 - Lunch Cafeteria (Max Planck 14.15 Institute) 13.00 - Poster Session 1 Seminarroom H4.10 14.15 Ferdows Aghagolzadeh (Tarbiat Modares University) (S2) The contributions of linguistic studies at the universities of Iran. Zohreh Eslami-Rasekh (Texas A&M University) Manifestations of tæ'arof (Ritual Politeness) in Persian Invitations. Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari (The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran) Subjunctive mood in contemporary Persian. Session Chair: Simin Karimi (University of Arizona) III 14.15 - Jila Ghomeshi (University of Manitoba) Lecture Hall 14.45 Markedness and bare nouns in Persian.

14.45 - Lewis Gebhardt (Northwestern University) Lecture Hall 15.15 Classifiers and Plural in Persian.

15.15 - Daniel Paul (SOAS London) Lecture Hall 15.45 The 'indefinite' suffix in modern Persian is a classifier.

15.45 - Coffee Break Entrance Hall 16.30 Session Chair: Vida Samiian (CSU Fresno) IV 16.30 - Pollet Samvelian (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Lecture Hall 17.00 The Ezafe construction in Iranian languages.

17.00- Geoffrey Haig (University of Kiel) Lecture Hall 17.30 Remarks on the supposed passive origins of ergativity in Iranian.

17.30- Annahita Farudi (Oxford University) and Maziar Lecture Hall 18.00 Toosarvandani (USC Berkeley) The loss of ergativity in Dari modal verbs.

18.00 - Coffe Break Entrance Hall 18.15

18.15 - Keynote speech Lecture Hall 19.15 Gilbert Lazard (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)

The Iranian languages in diachrony and synchrony: a variegated and moving picture.

Saturday 18 June

8.00 - Registration Entrance Hall 9.00 Session V Chair: Don Stilo (Max Planck Institute) 9.00 - Simin Karimi (University of Arizona) Lecture Hall 9.30 Control constructions in some Iranian languages.

9.30 - Ali Darzi (Tehran University) Lecture Hall 10.00 Persian subject control.

10.00 - Holmberg, Anders (University of Newcastle) and David Lecture Hall 10.30 Odden (Ohio State University) The Noun Phrase in Hawrami.

10.30 - Coffee Break Entrance Hall 10.45 Session Chair: t.b.a. VI 10.45 - Karine Megerdoomian (University of California, San Lecture Hall 11.15 Diego) A typology of Persian complex predicates.

11.15 - Mohamad Vahedi Langrudi (Tarbiat Modares University) Lecture Hall 11.45 De-verbal compound nominalization and argument structure in Persian.

11.45 - Gh. Karimi-Doostan (University of Kurdistan) Lecture Hall 12.15 The predicative nominals in complex verbs.

12.15 - Lunch Cafeteria (Max Planck 14.45 Institute) 13.30 - Poster Session 2 Seminarroom H4.10 14.45 Ali Alizadeh (Birjand University) (S2) Word Order and the position of direct object in Persian sentences. Majid Fattahipoor (Azad University, Parand) A study of Khalaj language: variable Pronunciation of /q/ under influence of Farsi. Corinna Leschber (Humboldt University Berlin) Iranian-Turkish-Bulgarian language contact: From a contact-semantic point of view. Manijeh Youhanaee (Isfahan University) Light verbs in Persian and English: Do they share the same properties? Session Chair: Karine Megerdoomian (UCSD) VII 14.45 - Jan Mohammad and Azita Taleghani (University of Lecture Hall 15.15 Arizona) The properties of ke in Persian.

15.15 - Aria Adli (New York University) Lecture Hall 15.45 Persian wh-questions: word order variation.

15.45 - Coffee Break Entrance Hall 16.30 Session Chair: Shahrzad Mahootian (Northeastern Illinois VIII University) 16.30 - Arezoo Najafian and Mohamad Vahedi Langrudi Lecture Hall 17.00 (Tarbiat Modares University) The analysis of Impersonal constructions in Persian: an unaccusative hypothesis approach.

17.00 - Reza Nilipour (University Rehabilitation Sciences & Lecture Hall 17.30 School of Cognitive Science/Iran) Where and what' of the Persian language within pathological context.

17.30 - Coffee Break Entrance Hall 17.45

17.45 - Keynote speech Lecture Hall 18.45 Mohammad Reza Bateni (Tehran University)

Recent Advances in Persian Lexicography.

19.45 Conference Dinner in the Restaurant of the Hotel Michaelis.

19.45 - 20.15: Elahe Mir-Djalali Omidyar (Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute) 20.15 - 20.45: Simin Karimi: Remarks about the proceedings 20.45 - 22.45: Dinner reception

Sunday 19 June

8.30 - Registration Entrance Hall 9.00 Session Chair: Anders Holmberg (University of Newcastle) IX 9.00 - Shahrzad Mahootian (Northeastern Illinois University) Lecture Hall 9.30 Discourse constraints on Inversion.

9.30 - John R. Roberts (SIL International) Lecture Hall 10.00 Scrambling in Persian: an RRG approach.

10.00 - Ludwig Paul (University of Hamburg) Lecture Hall 10.30 The Persian suffix -ra as a general linguistic problem.

10.30 - Coffee Break Entrance Hall 10.45 Session X Chair: Reza Nilipour (University Rehabilitation Sciences & School of Cognitive Science/Iran) 10.45 - Ellert T. Johannsson (Cornell University) Lecture Hall 11.15 About alternation in Avestan u-stems.

11.15 - Carina Jahani (University of Uppsala/ Sweden) Lecture Hall 11.45 Expressions of future in classical and Modern New Persian.

11.45 - Anousha Sedighi (University of Ottawa) Lecture Hall 12.15 Subjecthood and Agenthood in Persian

12.15 - Jon Dehdari and Deryle Lonsdal (Brigham Young Lecture Hall 12.45 University) A link grammar parser for Persian.

12.45 - Vida Samiian, Don Stilo, Simin Karimi Lecture Hall 13.00 Wrapping up

List of Participants

Plenary talks:

Mohammad R. Bateni Recent Advances in Persian Lexicography. (Tehran University)

Gilbert Lazard The Iranian languages in Diachrony and Synchrony: (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, a variegated and moving picture. Paris)

Session talks:

Adli, Aria Persian wh-questions: word order variation. (New York University)

Darzi, Ali Persian subject control. (Tehran University)

Dehdari, Jon & Lonsdale, Deryle A link grammar parser for Persian. (Brigham Young University) Gebhardt, Lewis Classifiers and Plural in Persian. (Northwestern University, Illinois )

Ghaniabadi, Saeed M/p-echo reduplication in colloquial Persian: an OT (University of Manitoba ) analysis.

Ghomeshi, Jila Markedness and bare nouns in Persian. (University of Manitoba)

Haig, Geoffrey Remarks on the supposed passive origins of ergativity (Universität Kiel) in Iranian.

Holmberg, Anders & Odden, The Noun Phrase in Hawrami. David (University of Newcastle & Ohio State University)

Jahani, Carina Expressions of future in classical and Modern New (University of Uppsala) Persian.

Johannsson, Ellert T. Ablaut alternation in Avestan u-stems. (Cornell University)

Karimi, Simin Control construction in some Iranian languages. (University of Arizona)

Karimi-Doostan, Gh. The predicative nominals in complex verbs. (University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj)

Korn, Agnes Object or not object: marking of actants in Balochi (Universität Frankfurt) ergative constructions.

Mahootian, Shahrzad The Function of Preposing in Farsi: A Comparative (Northeastern Illinois University, Study. Chicago)

Megerdoomian, Karine A typology of Persian complex predicates. (University of California, San Diego)

Mohammad, Jan The properties of ke in Persian. (University of Arizona) Najafian, Arezoo The analysis of Impersonal constructions in Persian: (Tarbiat Modares University, : an unaccusative hypothesis approach. Tehran)

Nilipour, Reza 'Where and what' of the Persian language within (University of Welfare Sciences & pathological context. Rehabilitation, Tehran)

Paul, Daniel The 'indefinite suffix' in modern Persian is a (SOAS London) classifier.

Paul, Ludwig The Persian suffix -ra as a general linguistic (Universität Hamburg) problem.

Rialland, Annie & Samvelian, Rightmost or leftmost? Accentual rules and Pollet intonation in Farsi. (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Roberts, John R. Scrambling in Persian: An RRG Approach. (SIL)

Samiian, Vida t.b.a. (California State University)

Samvelian, Pollet The Ezafe construction in Iranian languages. (Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle)

Sedighi, Anousha Subjecthood and Agenthood in Persian. (University of Ottawa)

Stilo, Donald Two sets of floating agreements clitics in the verbal (Max Planck Institute for system of Northern Talyshi. Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)

Toosarvandani, Maziar & Loss of Ergativity in Yazdi Modal Verbs. Farudi, Annahita (University of California, Berkeley & Worcester College, Oxford) Vahedi Langrudi, M. Mehdi De-verbal compound nominalization and argument (Tarbiat Modares University, structure: potential bound compound verbal stems in Tehran) Persian.

Wendtland, Antje On ergativity in Pamir languages. (Universität Göttingen)

Poster presentation:

Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows The contribution of linguistics studies at the (Tarbiat Modares University, universities of Iran. Tehran)

Alizadeh, Ali Word Order and the position of direct Object in (Birjand University) Persian sentences.

Eslami-Rasekh, Zohreh Manifestations of ta'arof (Ritual Politeness) in (Texas A&M University) Persian Invitations.

Fattahipoor, Majid A study of Khalaj language: variable pronunciation (Azad University, Parand) of /q/ under influence of Farsi.

Leschber, Corinna Iranian-Turkish-Bulgarian language contact. From a (Humboldt Universität Berlin) contact-semantic point of view.

Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz Subjunctive mood in contemporary Persian. (The Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran)

Youhanaee, Manijeh Light verbs in Persian and English: Do they share (Isfahan University) the same properties?

further participants: de Caro, Gerado (SOAS London) Dehdari, Carolyn (Brigham Young Univerity)

Eslami, Mohanam (TU Dresden)

Karani, Suzie (University of Michingan)

Kwak, Saera (University of Tehran)

Lockwood, Ron (SIL International)

Nabhani, Ali (SIL International)

Sarkheil, Pegah (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen)

Scheuchter, Bernhard (Graz)

Zandjani, Nina (University of Oslo)