Articles in journals and edited volumes

  • “Zabānšenāsī čīst?” (What is linguistics?), in: Xāne 1:6, 1996 (in Persian).


  • “Takvāž-e -xāne va ‘amalkard-e ma’nāyī-ye ān dar sāxtvāže-ye zabān-e Fārsī” (The Morpheme -xāne and its behavior in Persian Morphology), in: Zabān-o-Adab (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Allameh-Tabataba'i-University) 8:10-17, 1997 (in Persian).


  • “Xatt-e Fārsī: Monāseb yā nārasā?” (Persian writing system: good or inconvenient?), in: Rošd 35:68-79, 2000 (in Persian).


  • “Samposīyom-e motāle’āt-e Balučī dar dānešgāh-e Upsālā” (The Symposium of Baluchi Studies at Uppsala University), (Report), in: Boxārā 15:327-335, 2000 (in Persian).


  • “Verbal negation in Bakhtīārī dialect, A typological Study”. (to be published in: Iran and Caucasus 7, 2005).


  • “Sequence of Tenses in Persian”, in: L.Guertsenberg (Ed.), Proceedings of the Celebration of the 110th Anniversary of Professor Viktor M. Zhimunsky, St.Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001:122-138.


  • “Dorotī Pārker va Tamās-e telefonī”, (Dorothy Parker and ‘A Telephone Call’), in: Golestāne 32:69-71, 2001 (in Persian).


  • “Kārbord-e Xošunat”, (Translation of William Carlos Williams’ ‘The Use of Force’), in: Āzmā 13 (2001):59-61.


  • “Vajh-e qāleb”, Translation of Roman Jakobson’s The Dominant, in: Farzān Sojudi (Ed.), Sāxt garāyī, pasā-sāxt garāyī va motāle’āt-e adabī, Tehran, Hoze-y-e Honarī-y-e Sāzmān-e Tablīqāt-e Eslāmī, 2001:81-9.


  • “Naqš-e zibāyī āfarīnī, hanjār va arzeš, be masābe-y-e vāqe’īyyat hā-y-e ejtemā’ī”, Translation of J. Mukarovsky’s Aesthetic function, Norm, Value as social facts, in: Farzān Sojudī (Ed.), Sāxt garāyī, pasā-sāxt garāyī va motāle’āt-e adabī, Tehran, Hoze-ye Honarī-y-e Sāzmān-e Tablīqāt-e Eslāmī, 2001:107-15.


  • “Ta’āmol-e ma’nāyī-ye af’āl-e gozašte va hāl dar zabān va adab-e Fārsī” (The collaboration of present and past tenses in Persian language and literature), in: Rošd 60:26-33, 2002, (in Persian).


  • “Doxtar xānde-ye sarzamīn-e Balučestān” (Baluchestan’s adopted-daughter, Interview with Dr. Carina Jahani), in: Boxārā 21-2:350-358, 2002, (in Persian).


  • “Īrān Šenāsī dar Orupā: Dīruz, emruz, fardā” (Iranian Studies in Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow), (Report), in: Boxārā 24:335-338, 2002, (in Persian).


  • “Frānsīs Gelādvīn va ketāb-e Monšī-ye Fārsī-ye u” (Francis Gladwin and his Persian Moonshee), in: Irān-Šenāsī 2:366-378, 2002, (in Persian).


  • “Gozāreš-e naxostīn konferāns-e guyeš šenāsi-ye Kermān” (Report of the first conference of Kermān Dialect Studies), in: Guyeš-šenāsī 1, 2003, (in Persian).


  • “Planning the Persian Language in the Samanid Period”, in: Iran and the Caucasus 7:251-260, 2003.


  • “Notes on the Tense Systems in Baluchi and Standard Persian”, in: Carina Jahani and Agnes Korn (Eds.), The Baloch and Their Neighbours: Ethnic and Lingustic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times, Wisbaden, Dr. Ludwig Reichert, 2003:133-146.


  • “Šīve hā-ye xatāb o mokātebe dar dore-ye Qājār, bar asās-e ketāb-e Jāme’-ol-Morāselāt va Jāme’-ol-Mohāsebāt” (Terms of address and methods of letter writing according to the book Jāme’-ol-Morāselāt va Jāme’-ol-Mohāsebāt), in: Sīrus Nasrollāh-Zāde (Ed.), Yašt-e Farzānegī: Jašn-Nāme-ye Doktor Mohsene Abolqāsemī (=Dr. Mohsen Abolghasemi’s Festschrift), Tehran:435-446.


  • With Hassan Rezai-Baghbidi, “Plural marking in New West Iranian Languages: A historical and typological approach”, in: Studies on Persianate Societies 2, 2005:167-181.


  • “Tārīxče-ye āmuzeš-e zabān-šenāsī dar Īrān: Revāyat-e doktor Hormoz-e Mīlāniyān” (The background of Linguistic instruction in Iran, as narrated by Dr. Hormoz Mīlānīyān), in: Ketāb-e Māh.


  • With Faryār Axlāqī, “Barrasī-ye goftemān-e mofasserān-e varzešī dar rādīyo va televīzīyon” (A Study of the discoursal characteristics of sport reports in radio and television), in Parvarī, M. [Ed.], Zabān va resāne, Tehran, IRIB Press, 2005:13-28.


  • “Bahr-e tavil va nemune-hāyī az kārbord-e ān dar namāyeš-e Īrānī", in: Farhang o Hanar 2:4-10, 2006.


  • "Ketāb-e taxassosī-ye raves-e tahqīq be ’onvān-e halqe-ye mafqude (Reasearch methods textbook as a missed link), in: Ketāb-e Darsī-ye Dānešgāhī, Tehran, Samt Publications, 2006.


  • “Linguistic Innovations in the Poetry of Iraj Mirzā”, in: Vladimir Ivanov (Ed.), PAPERS DEDICATED TO PROFESSOR RASTARGUEVA, Moscow, 2007:218-233.


  • “Towards a 'Fun-Ethics' Class: Some Notes in Teaching Phonetics”. ILI Language Teaching Journal 3, 2007:75-88.