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Abedinzadeh, Sadra    Edit صدرا عابدین زاده Email: Home page: http://www.sadra.info Education: Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of Regina, Regina, SK, Canada M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; B.Sc. in Computer Sciences, University of Tehran Affiliation: University of Regina Interests: Cross Language Information Retrieval, Data Mining, Agent & Multi Agent Systems

Afkhami, Ali    Edit علی افخمی Dr. Afkhami is Professor of Linguistics at Tehran University, where he also serves as the head of the Central Library and Documentation Center. Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Paris (1985) Affiliation: Tehran University Interests: Sociolinguistics, discourse.

Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows    Edit فردوس آقاگلزاده Dr. Aghagolzadeh is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Tarbiat Modares University. Email: Home page: http://www.modares.ac.ir/fhum/Aghagolz/ Education: PhD in Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University Interests: Applied linguistics, Critical Discourse Analysis

Ahadi, Shahram    Edit شهرام احدی Dr. Ahadi is currently teaching Persian language at the University of Freiburg and the University of Bonn, in Germany Education: MA Bonn, Phd Bamberg/Germany Affiliation: University of Freiburg Interests: Syntax, compound verb, valency, dependency grammar, language teaching (Persian as a foreign language), mono- and bilingual lexicography.

Ahmadi, Amir    Edit Email: Education: M.A student in general linguistics Interests: semiotics, stylistics, discourse analysis

Ahmadvand, Moslem    Edit مسلم احمدوند Email: Home page: http://www.ahmadvand.tk Education: BA in English Literature, MA in Applied Linguistics Affiliation: The University of Zanjan Interests: Biolinguistics (Theoretical Syntax and Language Growth)

Alaayi Aboozar, Elham    Edit Ms. Alaayi is currently teaching English at Tehran university and has recently worked on Persian separable compound verbs in corpus linguistics. Email: Education: ph.D student in general linguistics at university of Tehran Affiliation: Tehran university Interests: corpus linguistics,computational linguistics, phonology,syntax and morphology

Alami, Manizheh    Edit Email: Education: PhD candidate in Linguistics Affiliation: University Science Malaysia Interests: Discourse Analysis, Gender Studies

AleAhmad, Abolfazl    Edit ابوالفضل آل احمد Email: Home page: http://khorshid.ut.ac.ir/~a.aleahmad Education: M.Sc. University of Tehran Affiliation: University of Tehran - DBRG Lab. Interests: Persian Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing and Semantic Web

Alinezhad, Batool    Edit Email: Education: Ph.D in general Linguisics Affiliation: University of Isfahan Interests: Phonetics and phonology

Amiri, Hadi    Edit هادی امیری Email: Home page: http://khorshid.ut.ac.ir/~h.amiri/ Education: M.Sc, Software Engineering. University of Tehran Affiliation: Database Research Group, University of Tehran Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Federated Search, Conceptual Search

Amouzadeh, Mohammad    Edit محمد عموزاده Email: Education: Ph.D in Linguistics, Adelaide University (1997) Affiliation: Isfahan University Interests: Persian Linguistics, sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics, semiotics, cognitive linguistics

Amtrup, Jan    Edit Jan is Research Operations Manager at Kofax Image Products. He was chief architect on the Shiraz project, an English to Persian MT prototype and he is currently working on a Persian morphological analyzer and tagger. Email: Home page: http://www.literatim.org/jamtrup Education: PhD in Computer Science from Hamburg University, Germany 1998 Affiliation: Kofax Image Products Interests: Architecture of NLP systems, Parsing with Unification-based grammars, Machine Translation, classification

Arjmandnia, Babak    Edit Home page: http://ir.linkedin.c...arjmandnia/11/146/89 Education: Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Affiliation: Software Developer at Fanafzar Interests: Data Mining, Text Mining in Farsi language.

Aryadoust, Seyed Vahid    Edit سید وحید آریادوست Email: Home page: http://vahidaryadoust.blogspot.com/ Education: PhD candidate in Applied Linguistics Affiliation: National Institute of Education, Singapore Interests: Validation; Langauge Assessment; Rasch Measurement; SEM

Asudeh, Ash    Edit اش آسوده Dr. Asudeh is currently an Assistant Professor at Carleton University in Canada. Email: Home page: http://http-server.carleton.ca/~asudeh/ Education: Ph.D., Stanford University, Department of Linguistics. Affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) & School of Linguistics and Applied Language, Carleton University Interests: Syntax, Semantics, Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories and Grammatical Architecture, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

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Babrakzai, Farooq    Edit Dr. Babrakzai is a Pashto specialist at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Education: Phd in Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (1999) Affiliation: DLI Interests: Pashto syntax

Badakhshan, Ebrahim    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.uok.ac.ir/ebadakhshan Education: MPhil from Tarbiyat Modares University, PhD from Allameh Tabatabaee University Affiliation: University of Kurdistan Interests: Morphology, Computational Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, Lexicography

Baghdadi, Mitra    Edit میترا بغدادی Email: Education: B.A. in General Psychology، Graduate Certificate in teaching English to speakers of other languages (two years TESOL Certification program) Master of Arts in General Linguistics Affiliation: California State Long Beach Interests: Research design and statisitics for Applied Linguistics, Issues in language assessment, Bilingualism,Discourse Analysis( Preferred Argument Structure)

Bagherbeigi, Somayeh    Edit Email: Education: M.A in Linguistics;B.S in Computer Engineering Affiliation: Shahid Beheshti NLP laboratory; Allameh Tabatabai University Interests: Natural language Processing, Persian Text-to-speech System, Wordnet Construction, Persian Compound Verb, Cognitive Science

Baghinipour, Majid    Edit مجید باغینی پور Mr. Baghinipour is the webmaster for http://www.kkhec.ac.ir/, a website on Iranian linguistics. Email: Home page: http://baghinipour.blogfa.com/ Education: MA Allameh Tabatabai Interests: Discourse analysis, Syntax, Kermani dialect

Bahman, Zhila    Edit Education: Ph.D. Candidate in Linguistics Affiliation: University of Sydney, Australia Interests: Systemic Theory, Functional Grammar, Genre Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis

Baloch, Hamid Ali    Edit Hamid Ali Baloch teaches Linguistics in the Balochi Department University of Balochistan. Email: Education: M.A M.phil in Balochi Linguistics Interests: Balochi, Dialectology and Lexicography

Barjasteh, Darab    Edit Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Interests: Compound verbs, syntax

Bateni, Mohammad Reza    Edit ﻤﺤﻤﺪﺭﻀﺎ ﺒﺎﻄﻨﻰ Dr. Bateni is a retired professor of Tehran University. Education: PhD in Linguistcs, College University, London

Bazyar, Mehdi    Edit Mehdi Bazyar is currently a PhD Student in linguistics at Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. Email: Education: MA in General linguistics Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabai University Interests: Neurolinguistics, Functional Linguistics, Language processing and Discourse.

Bijankhan, Mahmood    Edit محمود بی جن خان Dr. Bijankhan is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tehran University. Email: Home page: http://literature.ut...ankhan/bijankhan.htm Education: PhD in Linguistics, Tehran University (1996) Affiliation: Tehran University Interests: Phonetics, phonology, corpus linguistics

Boroumand, Nooshin    Edit Ms. Boroumand is currently a PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa. Email: Education: MA in TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) from Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran. Affiliation: University of Ottawa Interests: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition (vocabulary acquisition), movies

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Cagri, Ilhan    Edit Email: Education: Ph.D. in linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park. Major area: syntax. Minor area: psycholinguistics. Affiliation: University of Maryland Interests: Theoretical syntax. Specialties: Turkish and Persian. Language testing.

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Dabir-Moghaddam, Mohammad    Edit محمد دبیرمقدم Dr. Dabir-Moghaddam is Professor of linguistics at Allameh Tabatabai University in Iran. Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabai University Interests: Persian syntax, causative constructions, compound verbs, typology

Darrudi, Ehsan    Edit Email: Education: MSC, Tehran University, Computer Eng, 2005, Iran BSC, Ferdowsi University, Computer Eng, 2002, Tehran, Iran Affiliation: Iran National Science Foundation Interests: Farsi Language (Hamshahri Corpus), Artificial Intelligence

Darzi, Ali    Edit علی درزی Dr. Darzi is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Tehran University. Email: Home page: http://literature.ut...bers/darzi/darzi.htm Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1996) Affiliation: Tehran University Interests: Syntax, control structures

Davar, Mehran    Edit مهران داور Email: Home page: http://www.irexperts.blogfa.com Education: PhD Student, Century University; M.A. in General Linguistics, Tehran Univ; B.Sc. in Maths, Applied in Computer, Amir Kabir Univ. of Technology; B.A. in English, Tehran Azad Univ. Affiliation: Century University - University of Tehran Interests: Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Federated Search, Conceptual Search,cognitive linguistics,Architecture of NLP systems, Parsing with Unification-based grammars, Machine Translation, classification,Langauge Assessment,Syntax, Semantics, Cognitive Science, Linguistic Theories and Grammatical Architecture, Computational Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Philology, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy Translation.

Davari, Negar    Edit Associate lecturer; linguistics department; project on "language planning in Iran" Email: Education: phd, Tehran University Affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University Interests: Sociolinguistics (language planning), discourse analysis, terminology and persian morphology, lexicography, language for specific purpose

Davis, Chris Irwin    Edit Chris Irwin Davis is a Ph.D. candidate in Computational Linguistics at the University of Texas at Dallas. Email: Home page: http://www.hlt.utdallas.edu/~cid Education: M.S. Computer Science in Intelligent Systems, University of Texas at Dallas Affiliation: University of Texas at Dallas Interests: Frame Semantics, Lexical Semantics, and associated ontologies.

Dehdari, Jon    Edit Mr. Dehdari is a PhD student at the Linguistics Department of the Ohio State University. Email: Home page: http://ling.osu.edu/~jonsafari Education: Masters, Brigham Young University Affiliation: The Ohio State University Interests: computational linguistics, syntax, morphology, formal languages, typology

Dehghani, Yavar    Edit Email: Education: PhD, La Trobe, Melbourne Affiliation: Council for Adult Education Interests: Persian grammar, second langauge learning, translation, speech disorders

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Ebadat, Ali Reza    Edit Working on Pars Translator (English to Persian Machine Translation) Email: Education: Nancy University (2008-2009)and Saarland University (2007-2008), Master student in Computational Linguistics, Erasmus Mundus scholarship B.S ,Computer Engineering, Sharif University of Technology Affiliation: Nancy University Interests: Machine Translation, Statistical Natural Language Processing

Esfahbod, Behdad    Edit Mr. Esfahbod was a developer on the FarsiWeb Project on internationalization and Persian localization, and is co-founder of Sharif FarsiWeb, Inc. He is also a contributor to the FarsiTex project. Email: Home page: http://behdad.org/ Education: MS in Computer Science, University of Toronto Affiliation: Red Hat, Canada Interests: Developing computer tools for Persian script.

Eslami, Zohreh R.    Edit Email: Home page: http://directory.ceh...view.epl?nid=zrasekh Education: PhD in Second Language Acquisition and Teacher Education, University of Illinoise at Urbana-Champaign, 1992 Affiliation: Texas A&M University Interests: Pragmatics of Persian Language, Speech Acts in Persian, Politeness in Persian, Intercultural Pragmatics, Inerlanguage Pragmatics, ESL/EFL Teacher Education

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Faili, Heshaam    Edit see NLP lab homepage: http://ece.ut.ac.ir/nlp Email: Home page: http://ece.ut.ac.ir/faculty/faili Education: PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Sharif University of Tehran Affiliation: University of Tehran Interests: Persian Language Processing, Machine Translation (Statistical and Rule-based), Ontology generation, Spell Checking System

Family, Neiloufar    Edit Email: Home page: http://nfamily.free.fr Education: PhD in Cognitive Science EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Paris Interests: Language Acquisition, Cognitive Linguistics

Farudi, Annahita    Edit Ms. Farudi is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in linguistics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is a researcher on the Dari Language Project. Email: Home page: http://people.umass.edu/afarudi/ Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Interests: syntactic theory, formal semantics, and Iranian languages.

Fazly, Afsaneh    Edit Dr. Fazly is a post-doctoral fellow at the Computer Science department of the University of Toronto, working in the computational linguistics and computational vision groups. Email: Home page: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~afsaneh Education: PhD in Computer Science, University of Toronto (2006) Affiliation: University of Toronto Interests: Computational Lexical semantics; acquisition, representation and automatic processing of multiword expressions.

Foroodi-Nejad, Farzaneh    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.ualberta.ca/~farzaneh/ Education: PhD student in Developmental Psycholinguistics Affiliation: University of Alberta, Canada Interests: Specific language impairment in children, child first/second language acquisition, psycholinguistics

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Ganjavi, Shadi    Edit Dr. Ganjavi is a faculty member in the Linguistics/TESL program at CSUN Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Southern California (2007) Affiliation: California State University, Northridge Interests: syntax, syntax/semantics interface, language development, Persian linguistics

Gazsi, Denes    Edit Denes Gazsi is a PhD candidate at the Department of Iranian Studies at the Faculty of Arts, ELTE University of Budapest in Hungary. Gazsi's research focuses on Arabic language elements in Persian, modern Persian spoken dialects, and diglossia in Iran. Email: Education: MA, Iranian Languages and Literature; ELTE University of Budapest, Hungary; MA, Arabic Language and Literature; ELTE University of Budapest, Hungary Affiliation: ELTE University of Budapest Interests: Orientalism, Languages and literature, Dialectology

Gerami, Shahram    Edit Email: Education: Allameh Tabatabai Affiliation: Shiraz Technical College Interests: Iranian dialects, syntax, language documentation.

Ghafel, Banafsheh    Edit Email: Education: MA student of TEFL Affiliation: Islamic Azad University of Najaf-Abad Interests: Neurolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, intercultural & crosscultural studies on metaphors, language teaching

Ghalaati, Amirreza    Edit Email: Education: MA in Language Practice: "Translation", 2009 Affiliation: University of the Free State Interests: sociolinguistics, Narrative and ideology in Translation, tracing problems in translation and search for solution, critical studies in Translation

Ghaniabadi, Saeed    Edit Email: Home page: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~umghania/ Education: PhD in Linguistics from University of Manitoba, Canada Affiliation: University of Manitoba Interests: Morphology, Syntax, Morphophonology, Syntax-phonology interface, Persian linguistics

Ghayoomi, Masood    Edit مسعود قیومی Masood Ghayoomi is currently a PhD student at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany working on Persian HPSG under supervision of Stefan Müller. Email: Home page: http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~ghayoomi/ Education: M.S. in Language Science and Technology at Saarland University, Germany, (2008-2009). M.S. in Computational Linguistics at Nancy2 University, France, (2007-2008). EM program in Language and Affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Interests: Syntax (HPSG), Computational Linguistics, Language Modeling, Machine Learning Techniques (Active Learning)

Ghomeshi, Jila    Edit ژيلا قميشی Dr. Ghomeshi is an Associate Professor in the department of Linguistics at University of Manitoba, Canada. She also serves as the Director of the Institute for the Humanities. Email: Home page: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~ghomeshi/ Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Toronto Affiliation: University of Manitoba Interests: Linguistic theory, phrase structure, syntax-pragmatics interface, syntax-morphology interface.

Golshaie, Ramin    Edit Email: Education: PhD candidate of Linguistics, Tarbiat Modares University Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University Interests: Psycholinguistics, language comprehension, usage-based linguistics, computational linguistics

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Habibi, Ali    Edit Email: Education: PHD student of general linguistics,MA in general linguistics,BA in TEFL Affiliation: Payame Noor University

Hafezi Manshadi, Mehdi    Edit Mr. Hafezi Manshadi is a PhD student working with Prof. James F. Allen. Home page: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~mehdih/ Education: M.S., Sharif University of Technology, Iran (2002) Affiliation: University of Rochester Interests: Speech and Natural Language Processing.

Haig, Geoffrey    Edit Dr. Haig works on several research projects at Kiel, Germany documenting endangered languages. Email: Home page: http://www.linguisti...uni-kiel.de/haig.htm Education: PhD at University of Bamberg (1998) Affiliation: Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Interests: Turkic and Iranian languages, focusing on morphology and syntax, areal typology, historical development, language policy

Hamedani, Ladan    Edit Currently a part-time lecturer of Persian Language at McGill University Email: Education: Ph.D.Candidate of Linguistics, University of Ottawa Affiliation: McGill University Interests: Second Language Acquisition, Syntax, Pedagogy

Hassani, Hamid    Edit Email: Education: MA, Persian Language and Literature, Payam-e Noor University, Tehran, 2009 Affiliation: Academy of Persian Language and Literature Interests: Lexicography, corpus linguistics, Persian prosody, Arabic prosody

Heidari-Darani, Laya    Edit Email: Education: Ph.D Candidate in TEFL at Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran Affiliation: English Language Department, Azad University, Falavarjan Branch, Isfahan, Iran Interests: Persian Syntax, Phonetics and Phonology, Second Language Acquisition, Sociolinguistics

Hillmann, Michael Craig    Edit Home page: https://webspace.ute...as.edu/hillmann/www/ Education: PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Chicago (1974) Affiliation: Univeristy of Texas at Austin Interests: Persian language instructional materials development and language program design, sociolinguistics

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Ido, Shinji    Edit Dr. Ido is a Professor at the School of Languages and Cultures, at the University of Sydney. Email: Home page: http://ido.ifdef.jp/ Affiliation: University of Sydney Interests: Tajiki and Uzbek

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Jahani, Carina    Edit Dr. Jahani is professor of Iranian Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden. Email: Home page: http://www.lingfil.u...rsonal/carinajahani/ Education: PhD in Iranian Languages at Uppsala University (1989) Affiliation: Uppsala Universitet, Sweden Interests: Iranian languages, typology, language policy, Balochi

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Kahnemuyipour, Arsalan    Edit ارسلان کهنمويی‌پور Dr. Kahnemuyipour is an Assistant Professor in the Deaprtment of Language Studies at the University of Toronto, Mississauga Email: Home page: http://lang.syr.edu/...ge=fac_kahnemuyipour Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Toronto Affiliation: University of Toronto Interests: Syntax; Morphology; Syntax and prosody interface; Persian

Karbasi, Kaveh    Edit Email: Home page: http://khorshid.ut.ac.ir/~k.karbasi Education: M.Sc Student of Computer Engineering Affiliation: School of ECE, Univ. of Tehran. Interests: Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Automatic Language Acquisition

Karimi, Simin    Edit سيمين کريمی Dr. Karimi is a Professor in the department of Linguistics at University of Arizona. She is also Faculty member in the Cognitive Science Program, the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). Email: Home page: http://www.u.arizona.edu/~karimi/ Education: PhD in Linguistics, Washington University Affiliation: University of Arizona Interests: Minimalist Program, word order and scrambling, complex predicates, raising and control, sluicing, syntax and semantics of modals

Karimi, Yadgar    Edit Email: Home page: http://kyadgar.googlepages.com/home Education: PhD student in Linguistics Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabaii University Interests: Syntax and morphology of Iranian languages, in particular Kurdish.

Karimi-Doostan, Gholamhossein    Edit غلامحسین کریمی‌دوستان Email: Home page: www.uok.ac.ir Education: PhD in linguistics, Essex university, England Affiliation: University of Kurdistan Interests: Persian, Kurdish, Complex Predicates, Lexical categories

Kobdani, Hamidreza    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.ims.uni-s...uttgart.de/~kobdani/ Education: Ph.D. Candidate, Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, Germany. M.Sc. Degree in Distributed Systems Engineering from Brunel University, England. B.Sc. Degree in Softwar Affiliation: University of Stuttgart Interests: Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Feature Engineering, Coreference Resolution, Relational Data Mining

Korn, Agnes    Edit Dr. Korn is teaching in the comparative languages department at Frankfurt University. Email: Home page: http://titus.uni-fra...de/personal/korn.htm Affiliation: University Frankfurt a. M., Germany Interests: Iranian languages with specialization on Baluchi, language contact, historical linguistics, typology

Kwak, Saera    Edit Saera Kwak is currently a research professor of the Institute of Middle East Studies at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Email: Education: Ph.D (Tehran Univ.) Affiliation: Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (Seoul, Korea) Interests: Syntax, Lexical semantics, Negation

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Lachini, Kourosh    Edit Kourosh Lachini teaches academic and research paper writing and is also the supervisor of Test Item Quality Analysis team at QU. He is currently an associate editor of the Asian EFL Journal and has been awarded the Best of TESOL Arabia (2005) certificate for the excellence of research. Email: Home page: www.kourosh-lachini.com Education: Ph D in Applied Linguistics, IAU, Campus of Science and Research, Tehran (1997) Affiliation: University of Qatar Interests: Language Testing and Assessment, Learning Strategies (Metacognition), Critical Thinking, and Discourse Analysis

Lotfi, Ahmad Reza    Edit Dr. Lotfi is a faculty member of the English Department at Azad University at Khorasgan (Esfahan, Iran). He has been developing a radically minimalist theory of syntax. The original outline of the theory is available online as an unpublished manuscript (Semantico-Phonetic Form: A Unitarianist Grammar) via this link Email: Home page: http://lotfi-ahmadreza.blogspot.com/ Affiliation: Azad University at Khorasgan Interests: minimalist syntax, second language acquisition studies in generative grammar, and Iranian linguistics.

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Mahjani, Behzad    Edit Mr. Behzad is currently working on algorithms for Persian (Farsi) information retrieval. Email: Home page: http://www.timasearch.com/bm/ Education: MA in Linguistics from University of Tehran; M.Sc. in Speech and Language Processing from University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Affiliation: University of Edinburgh Interests: Natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence, with emphasis on Persian.

Mahjoubi, Moheb    Edit Email: Education: BA in English Language & Literature Affiliation: Tarbiat Moalem, Azarbaijan Interests: Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Cultural studies, Critical Theories

Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, Behrooz    Edit Email: Home page: http://bakhtiari.8m.net/ Affiliation: Tehran University Interests: Iranian languages; typology and dialectology; teaching Persian and English; translation.

Mahootian, Shahrzad    Edit Dr. Mahootian is Professor of Linguistics at Northeastern Illinois University Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, Northwestern Affiliation: Northeastern IIllinois University Interests: Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

Maleki, Jalal    Edit Mr. Maleki is a senior lecturer in computer science. He is currently working on Persian syllabification and automatic conversion between Romanized and Perso-Arabic writing systems. Email: Education: MPhil. Computer Science, Linkoping (1987) Affiliation: Linkoping University, Sweden Interests: Persian Orthography, Automatic Conversion between Writing Systems

Mansouri, Behzad    Edit Email: Education: Master of Arts, Teaching English Language, Tarbiat Modares University, 2006 Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University Interests: Language Testing, Psycholinguistics, ESP

Marashi, Mehdi    Edit Dr. Marashi has taught Persian at the University of Texas, the University of Utah and the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Marashi was an instructor of Persian at the U.S. Defense Language Institute prior to retiring. Education: PhD, U. of Texas Austin (1970) Interests: Persian language teaching

Megerdoomian, Karine    Edit کارينه مگردوميان - Կարինե Մկրտումյան Dr. Megerdoomian is a Senior Artificial Intelligence Engineer at MITRE, a research and development center in the US. Email: Home page: http://www.zoorna.org Education: BS in Physics, PhD in Linguistics; University of Southern California (2002) Affiliation: MITRE Interests: Persian and Armenian. Computational linguistics and complex predicates.

Mehdad, Yashar    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.dit.unitn...people/uinfo?id=1343 Education: PhD Student, Human Language Technology (Computational Linguistics), University of Trento, 2008 till 2011 Affiliation: University of Trento, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Interests: Natural Language Processing, Semantic, Text Processing, Textual Entailment, Meaning Extraction, Summarization, Question Answering.

Menason, Saeed    Edit Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Essex Affiliation: University of Essex, UK Interests: Persian and Azeri, with particular interest in the politeness manifestation in these languages and Discourse Analysis

Mesrian, Ali    Edit Email: Education: MA in Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran Affiliation: Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature; Islamic Azad University at North Tehran Interests: Persian, English; Translation studies, literary translation, translation and culture, terminology, lexicography; Sociolinguistics, language planning.

Minuchehr, Pardis    Edit Email: Education: Columbia University, Ph.D. (1998), Persian Studies and Middle Eastern Languages and Civilizations Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Interests: Persian language and literature

Mir Mohammad Ali, Behnaz    Edit Email: Education: MA in Linguistics, Tehran University Affiliation: Tehran University Interests: Syntax, LF, wh-movement, scrambling, Persian.

Modarres Khiabani, Shahram    Edit Email: Education: PhD in General Linguistics, Allame Tabataba'i University Affiliation: Islamic Azad University, Karaj branch Interests: Collocation, Morpholology, Semantics, Historical linguistics

Modarresi, Yahya    Edit Dr. Modarresi is the director of the Linguistics department of the Cultural Research Bureau in Tehran, Iran. The aim of this group is to conduct theoretical and applied linguistics studies on Persian and Iranian dialects. Education: PhD in Linguistics, Kansas University Affiliation: Institute for humanities and cultural studies, Tehran, Iran Interests: Persian sociolinguistics, language education

Modarresi, Fereshteh    Edit Currently pursuing a PhD. in Linguistics at the University of Ottawa Email: Education: B.Sc in Electrical Engineering Affiliation: University of Ottawa Interests: Syntax and semantics interface, psycholinguistics

Modarresi Ghavami, Golnaz    Edit Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Texas Austin Affiliation: Allameh Tabataba’i University Interests: Phonetics, phonology, morphology, languages of the gypsies of Iran.

Moezzipour, Farhad    Edit Email: Education: Master of Arts in General Linguistics Affiliation: Institiute for Humanities and Cultural Studies Interests: Interactional linguistics: syntax, semantics and pragmatics along with typological studies. Role and Reference Grammar

Moghaddas, Bahram    Edit بهرام مقدس Bahram Moghaddas is currently a PhD student at Osmania University,Hyderabad,India working on a Task-Based Language Teaching project. He is also a language teacher and head of the English department of Khazar Institute of Higher Education in Mazandaran. Email: Education: M.A in Linguistics, Islamic Azad University-Tehran Central Branch (2004) Affiliation: Osmania University, India Interests: Task-Based Language Learning, CALL, Vocabulary Education to EFL and ESL Learners, Bilingualism, SLA, English Writing Instruction, TESOL, Teaching Phonetics to EFL/ESL Learners, ESL/EFL Teacher Education, Teaching Reading Comprehension, CBLT, Lexicology and Different Aspects of Linguistics

Mohaghegh, Mercedeh    Edit مرسده محقق Email: Education: PhD student (linguistics) MA linguistics, University of Toronto, 2009 Affiliation: University of Toronto Interests: Theoretical and applied linguistics; phonology-phonetics interface

Mohammad, Jan    Edit Jan Mohammad is a teacher at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California. Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona Affiliation: DLI Interests: Syntax, teaching, Dari and Pashto.

Mohit, Behrang    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.cs.pitt.edu/~behrang Education: PhD Candidate in Intelligent Systems Program Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh Interests: Machine Translation, Multilingual Processing, Semantics

Mohseni, Mahdi    Edit Email: Education: M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology Affiliation: Iran University of Science and Technology Interests: Statistical Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation

Momtazi, Saeedeh    Edit Saeedeh Momtazi is currently in the PhD program for Language Technology and Cognitive Systems at University of Saarland, Germany Email: Home page: http://www.lsv.uni-s...sonalPages/smomtazi/ Education: MSc Degree in Artificial Intelligence from Sharif University of Technology, BSc Degree in Software Engineering from Sharif University of Technology Affiliation: University of Saarland Interests: Computational Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Language Modeling, Information Retrieval

Müller, Stefan    Edit Stefan Müller is Professor for German and General Linguistics at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He works on theoretical grammars for various languages (German, Persian, Chinese, Maltese) and their machine processable implementation in the framework of HPSG. Email: Home page: http://hpsg.fu-berlin.de/~stefan/ Education: Habilitation in Computational Linguistics Universität des Saarlandes Saarbrücken Affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin

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Naghzguy Kohan, Mehrdad    Edit Dr. Kohan is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Bu Ali Sina in Hamadan, Iran. Email: Home page: http://profs.basu.ac...an/index.php?L=en&pc Education: PhD, Tehran University Affiliation: University of Bu Ali Sina Interests: Dialectology, historical linguistics

Najafi, Azade    Edit Email: Education: PHD in General Linguistics, Ferdowsi University, Mashhad; BA in English Translation, Tarbiat Moalem, Tehran Interests: Psycholinguistics, Syntax

Nojoumian, Peyman    Edit Lecturer of Persian Language at the Linguistics Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Email: Home page: http://www.linguisti....edu/people/pnojoumi Education: Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistics, University of Ottawa M.S., Speech & Language Technology, Belgium M.A., Linguistics & Teaching Persian, Tehran Affiliation: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Interests: Teaching Persian as a Foreign Language, Instructional Materials Development based on TBLT, Persian & Computational Linguistics

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Oroumchian, Farhad    Edit Dr. Farhad Oroumchian is an Associate Professor in the College of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Wollongong in Dubai. He is also a Professor in the Engineering Department of Tehran University. He currently conducts research on models of information retrieval for Persian, using various methods such as vector space, probabilistic and fuzzy methods. Email: Education: PhD in Computer Science, Syracuse University Affiliation: University of Wollongong in Dubai Interests: Multilingual information retrieval, question answering, artificial intelligence, NLP and databases.

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Pahlavannejad, Mohammad Reza    Edit Dr. Pahlavannejad is an Assistant professor of linguistics Email: Education: Ph.D in Linguistics Affiliation: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Interests: Functionalism, Syntax, Semantics

Parsafar, Parviz    Edit پرویز پارسافر professor of ESL and Linguistics at Yuba Community College, Marysville, California. Email: Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Yale University (1996) Affiliation: Yuba Community College Interests: Syntax, Morphology, cognitive Linguistics, Space Grammar, Applied Linguistics, TESL, Historical Linguistics, Lexical Semantics

Parvaz, Dan    Edit دانيال علی پروز Email: Home page: http://www.mitre.org Education: MA Linguistics, University of New Mexico Affiliation: The MITRE Corporation Interests: Computational Linguistics -- Machine Translation, Entity Extraction, Corpus Linguistics, Encoding of Language, POS Tagging, Stemming, Morphological Analysis, Lexicography Theoretical Linguistics - Non-Chomskian models of syntax: Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar; Signed Languages, Gestural Systems.

Paul, Daniel    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.llc.manch...tudents/daniel_paul/ Affiliation: University of Manchester Interests: I have a particular interest in Iranian languages, and have previously been involved in sociolinguistic survey of smaller languages in Tajikistan (in collaboration with the State National University of Tajikistan and the Tajik government) and in Afghanistan (with the support of the government of Afghanistan).

Pendar, Nick    Edit Dr. Pendar is Senior Web Mining Engineer at Uptake Networks Home page: http://www.npendar.info/ Education: PhD, University of Toronto (2005) Affiliation: Uptake Networks Interests: Computational linguistics, statistical natural language processing, intelligent computer-assisted language learning systems

Perry, John R.    Edit Dr. Perry is Professor Emeritus of Persian at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, at the University of Chicago. Email: Home page: http://humanities.uc...ges/perry/index.html Education: Ph.D., Cambridge University, 1970. Affiliation: University of Chicago Interests: Persian Linguistics and Language History, Cultural History of Iran and the Middle East

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Qasemizadeh, Behrang    Edit Email: Home page: http://nlp.deri.ie/behrang Education: Master degree in AI from IUST, Bachelor of Software Engineering Affiliation: UNLP DERI, NUI Galway Interests: Information Extraction, Information Retrieval

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Rajaei, Samsamoddin    Edit Mr. Rajaei is a Masters student in the Computer Science department at the University of Munich in Germany. He is currently working on Persian, German and English languages. Affiliation: University of Munich Interests: Computational linguistics, Persian character sets adn encodings, lexicography.

Rasekh Mahaand, Mohammad    Edit Mr. Rasekh is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamadan, Iran. Email: Home page: http://profs.basu.ac.ir/rasekhmahand/ Education: Ph D of Linguistics, Allame Tabataba'i University Affiliation: Bu-Ali Sina University Interests: syntax, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics

Rezakhani, Khodadad    Edit Mr. Rezakhani is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of History at UCLA. He specializes on Late Antique Near Eastern History and his dissertation is on Sasanian economy. He is the author of Iranologie website. Email: Home page: http://www.iranologie.com/CV.html Education: C. Phil. in History from UCLA, MSc in Global History from the London School of Economics Affiliation: University of California Los Angeles Interests: History of Near East, Iranian languages (Old and Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Bactrian, Avestan), comparative IE (Old Norse, Sanskrit, Ancient Greek, Latin).

Riehemann, Susanne    Edit Dr. Riehemann is currently a Research Linguist at SRI International's AI Center. She has previously worked on Pashto-English speech-to-speech translation. Email: Home page: http://www.ai.sri.com/people/riehemann/ Education: PhD in Linguistics from Stanford University (2001) Affiliation: SRI International Interests: Computational Linguistics, HPSG, Morphology, and Corpus Linguistics; Pashto.

Roberts, Taylor    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.yorku.ca/twainweb/troberts/ Education: PhD in Linguistics, MIT Affiliation: York University Interests: Language Documentation, Linguistic Theories, Phonology, Syntax, Pashto.

Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie    Edit research on the semantics and folklore of Pamiri languages Email: Home page: www.uky.edu/~jrouhie Education: University of Virginia Affiliation: U. of Kentucky Interests: PhD, Slavic Languages and Literatures (linguistics and folklore), 1993

Rouhizadeh, Masoud    Edit مسعود روحی زاده Email: Education: PhD student، Center for Spoken Language Understanding Division of Biomedical Computer Science Oregon Health and Science University Affiliation: Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) Interests: Computational Semantics, Syntax, Lexicon, Psycholinguistics

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Sadat-Tehrani, Nima    Edit Email: Home page: http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~sadatteh/ Education: Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Manitoba, 2008 Affiliation: University of Manitoba Interests: Persian; Intonational phonology

Sadeghi, Ali Ashraf    Edit Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Paris Affiliation: Persian Academy of Letters (Farhangestan) Interests: Historical linguistics, Iranian languages

Sadeghi, Sima    Edit Sima Sadeghi, born in 1982, is a phd candidate at the university of Isfahan, where she is currently teaching BA courses. She has presented at several international/national conferences and has published several articles in: ELTED, BABEL,JCEPS, and Russian Association of Artificial Intelligence. Email: Home page: http://www.researchg...rofile/Sima_Sadeghi/ Education: PhD candidate in ELT Affiliation: University of Isfahan Interests: Application of Fuzzy Logic to NLP & Computational Linguistics; Critical Lanaguage Testing, Critical Applied Linguistics

Sadeghi Esfehani, Leila    Edit Home page: http://www.leilasade.../article.aspx?id=551 Education: M.A in Linguistics and BA in Persian Language and Literature from Allameh Tabatabaee University, B.A in English Translation from Azad University Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabaee University Interests: Cognitive Linguistics, Stylistics, Cognitive Poetics, Semiotics, Literary Criticism, Narrative Theory, Discourse analysis.

Saeed, Safari    Edit Email: Home page: http://lingoistica.com Education: MA Student of Linguistics Affiliation: Allame Tabatabaee University Interests: Corpus Linguistics, Teaching Farsi, Translation Studies, Computational Linguistics

Safaie Qalati, Mehdi    Edit Email: Education: PhD student Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University

Safari, Ali    Edit Email: Home page: http://tehran.academia.edu/AliSafari Education: PhD student of General Linguistics, University of Tehran; MA in General Linguistics; BA in TEFL Affiliation: Teacher Training Center of Qom Interests: Syntax-Semantics interface, Construction Grammar, Iranian languages, Second Language Acquisition

Samadi, Habibeh    Edit Dr. Samadi is an Assistant Professor at the Kerman University of Medical Sciences in Iran. Email: Education: Ph.D in Clincal Linguistics and Persian Language Development from Sheffield University, United Kingdom Affiliation: Kerman University of Medical Sciences Interests: Clinical linguistics

Samiian, Vida    Edit Dr. Samiian is Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Cal State, Fresno. Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, UCLA (1983) Affiliation: California State University, Fresno Interests: Persian syntax, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, Indo-Iranian languages

Samvelian, Pollet    Edit Dr. Samvelian is an Assistant Professor in general linguistics at Université de Paris III, La Sorbonne Nouvelle. Email: Home page: http://www.cavi.univ.../samvelian/index.htm Education: PhD in French Linguistics, Paris VII-Denis Diderot Affiliation: Paris University Interests: Syntax, lexicon-syntax interface, argument structure, linguistic typology; Persian, Kurdish, Armenian.

Sedighi, Anousha    Edit Dr. Anoudha Sedighi is an Assistant Professor of Persian at Portland State University. Email: Home page: http://www.fll.pdx.e...ultybios/sedighi.htm Education: Ph.D. in Persian Linguistics at U of Ottawa, M.A. in Linguistics, B.A. English Translation Affiliation: Portland State University Interests: Syntax, Morphology, Pedagogy, Heritage Persian

Shabani Jadidi, Pouneh    Edit Dr. Shabani Jadidi is currently a Faculty Lecturer of Persian Language and Linguistics at the Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University. Email: Home page: http://www.mcgill.ca...uneh-shabani-jadidi/ Education: Ph.D. Candidate of Linguistics, University of Ottawa (2004-present); Ph.D., Education (TEFL), Azad University, Science and Research Campus, Tehran (2004) Affiliation: McGill University Interests: Persian Language and Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Pedagogy, Second Language Acquisition, Psycholinguistics

Shahabi, Amir Shahab    Edit Dr. Shahabi is an Assistant professor of Computer Software Department at Azad University. Email: Affiliation: Islamic Azad University South Tehran Branch Interests: Word Sense Disambiguation in Natural Language Processing; Statistical Natural Language Understanding; Text Segmentation; Lemmatization

Shamsfard, Mehrnoush    Edit Dr. Shamsfard is an Assistant Professor at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran and is currently the Head of Natural language Processing Research Laboratory. Email: Home page: http://labs.sbu.ac.i...view&id=116&Itemid=1 Education: PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran (2003) Affiliation: Shahid Beheshti University, Iran Interests: Automatic thematic role extraction, ontology, Persian NLP

Shayan, Shakila    Edit Post Doctoral Fellow at MPI. Working on Categories and Concepts across Language and Cognition project Email: Home page: http://www.mpi.nl/Members/ShakilaShayan Education: Ph.D. Cognitive Science and Computer Science, Indiana University, US. Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Interests: Language Acquisition, Language and Cognition, Cognitive and Psycho Linguistics, Cognitive modeling of language acquisition

Shayegh, Kamal    Edit I have published my first book on vet in 2005. I have also translated 7 other books on agriculture,English literature and linguistics. Email: Home page: kamalshayegh.9f.com Education: BA in English Translation and MA in General Linguistics. Affiliation: Ahar Azad University Interests: Semantics, Phonology

Skjaervo, P. Oktor    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.fas.harva...faculty/skjaervo.htm Affiliation: Harvard University Interests: Old Iranian studies

Sohrabie, Akbar    Edit Email: Home page: http://sites.google..../site/sohrabieakbar/ Education: Graguate Student of Linguistics Affiliation: Khorasgan Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Interests: minimalist syntax, phonetics and phonology, sociolinguistics

Soltani, Mahmood (Iman)    Edit Email: Education: M.Sc. in Computer Engineering, University of Tehran; B.Sc. in Computer Engineering, IAUM Affiliation: University of Tehran Interests: Natural Language Processing(NLP), Data Mining, Cross-Language Information Retrieval

Stilo, Donald    Edit Dr. Stilo is a scientist in the Northwest Iranian Language Project in the Linguistics department at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. Email: Home page: http://email.eva.mpg.de/~stilo/ Education: PhD in Lingusitics, University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1971) Affiliation: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Interests: Iranian languages, typological studies.

Stump, Gregory    Edit Email: Home page: http://www.as.uky.ed...p/Pages/default.aspx Education: PhD, Linguistics, Ohio State University, 1981 Affiliation: University of Kentucky Interests: research on the inflectional systems of the Pamir languages

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Tabibzadeh, Omid    Edit Email: Home page: http://profs.basu.ac.ir/tabibzadeh Education: PhD, Tehran University, LMU Muenchen Affiliation: Bu Ali Sina University Interests: Phonology, Metrics, Dependency Grammar

Taghvaipour, Mehran Anushirvan    Edit Dr. Taghvaipour is currently Lecturer in English Syntax at the University of Hertfordshire, UK Email: Education: PhD in computational linguistics, Essex University, UK Affiliation: University of Hertfordshire Interests: Syntax, Unbounded Dependencies, Relative Clauses

Taheri, OmidReza    Edit Designing the conceptual cognitive system, my main focus is on Machine learning Algorithms. Email: Education: B.SC,M.SC in Computer Science M.A in Philosophy of Mind Research Scholar in Cognitive Linguistics Affiliation: Departement of Linguistics, Laboratory of Modyco, Paris Interests: Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, Connectionism, Philosophy of Language, Computational Linguistics,

Taleghani, Azita    Edit Dr. Taleghani teaches Persian language at Toronto University. Email: Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Arizona Affiliation: University of Toronto Interests: Persian, morphosyntax

Toosarvandani, Maziar    Edit Mr. Toosarvandani is a graduate student in linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. His main interests lie in the areas of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, in particular the study of ellipsis and focus. Home page: http://linguistics.b...rkeley.edu/~maziart/ Education: B.S., University of Virginia (2003), M.A., University of California, Berkeley (2006) Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley Interests: syntax, semantics, pragmatics, Iranian (Persian, Dari), Numic (Northern Paiute), Germanic (English, Danish)

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Vaezi, Hengameh    Edit Email: Education: PhD Candidate in Linguistics Affiliation: Allameh Tabatabai , Iran Interests: Syntax, Minimalist program, wh-movement, compound verbs, complex predicates, cognitive linguistics

Vahedi Langrudi, Mohammad-Mehdi    Edit Dr. Vahedi is a Professor of Linguistics at Modarres University in Tehran. Home page: http://www.modares.ac.ir/hum/Vahedi_m/ Education: PhD in Linguistics, University of Ottawa Affiliation: Tarbiat Modares University Interests: Syntax, Morpho-syntax, Argument Structure, Lexical Semantics.

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Walther, Géraldine    Edit PhD Student in General/Formal Linguistics, Laboratoire de Linguistique Formelle (LLF), Université Paris Diderot Email: Home page: http://www.linguist....iderot.fr/~gwalther/ Education: Master in General Linguistics, INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisation Orientales), Paris Affiliation: LLF, Université Paris Diderot, Paris 7 Interests: Research Topics: verbal morphology, clitics, argument structure; development of formalised morphological descriptions; development of lexical resources. Languages: Sorani Kurdish, Persian.

Windfuhr, Gernot    Edit Dr. Windfuhr is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Michigan's Department of Near Eastern Studies. Email: Home page: http://www.umich.edu...faculty/windfuhr.htm Education: PhD in Iranian Studies and Islamic Studies, Hamburg University Affiliation: University of Michigan Interests: ersian language, linguistics, literature, culture; Iranian linguistics and dialectology; Near Eastern linguistics; Pre-Islamic Iranian languages and religions, Zoroastrianism.

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Yarshater, Ehsan    Edit احسان يارشاطر Dr. Yarshater is the Director of The Center for Iranian Studies and Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. He is general editor for the Encyclopedia Iranica, a collection of scholarly articles on Iranian studies. Home page: http://www.perlit.sa...rsite.net/yarshater/ Education: PhDs from Tehran University and School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London (1969) Affiliation: Columbia University Interests: Iranian studies, dialectology

Yoshie, Satoko    Edit Email: Education: Ph.D. in Linguistics, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Affiliation: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Interests: Persian language, Iranian languages, Linguistics, Wakhi Language, Pamir Languages, Sociolinguistics

Youhanee, Manijeh    Edit Dr. Youhanaee is a Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Isfahan University in Iran. Email: Home page: http://fgn.ui.ac.ir/...tmls/e_youhanaee.htm Education: PhD in Language and Linguistics, Essex University Affiliation: Isfahan University Interests: Syntactic theory (Principles and Parameters), second language acquisition of syntax.