Papers presented at scholarly conferences
The items marked by an asterix (*) are papers which were sent to the conference, and were presented as posters.
“Imagery in Sa’dī’s Poetry”, Third Triennial Conference of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES), University of Ghent, Belgium, 1999 [*]
“Planning the Persian Language in the Samanid Period”, The Third Conference of Iranian Studies, Bethesda, USA, 2000.
With Mahbod Ghaffari, “A Prospective Syllabus for Teaching Persian to Muslims”. Lecture delivered at The Regional Workshop for Specialists in Muslim People’s Languages, held by The Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), Tehran, 2000, (Video tape available).
“Linguistic Innovations in the Poetry of Īraj Mīrzā”, First IRANISTIC Symposium, Bamberg, Germany, 2000, and the First World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Mainz, Germany, 2002. [*]
“The Linguistic Achievements of Ibn Sinā”, Ibn Sina Conference, Yale University, 2001. [*]
“Notes on the Linguistic Changes of the Arabic and Turkish Loan Words in Persian”,The international symposium: Areas of Iranian-Semitic-Turkic Linguistic Convergence in Historical and Modern Times, Uppsala University, Sweden, 2001.
With Hassan Rezai-Baghbidi, “Plural Marking in New West Iranian Languages”, The first ASPS biennial conference: Society, Language and Culture in the Persiannate World, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2002.
“The Story of Rābe'e and Baktāš, as Narrated by Rezā-Qolī Xān-e Hedāyat”, The 4th Conference of Iranian Studies, Bethesda, MD, USA, 2002. [*]
“On the Dialectal Words in the Text of Qor’ān-e Qods”, The conference: Iranian Studies in Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, University of Graz, Austria, 2002.
“On the Convergence of Lexicalization and Grammaticalization: Evidence from Persian”, The 5th conference of Societas Iranologica Europaea, Ravenna, Italy, 2003.
“Wind in the (West) Iranian Languages and Dialects”, The Second Biennial Convention of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Yerevan, Armenia, 2-4 April 2004.
“The Library of the Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia and its written manuscripts”, Lecture presented at the conference: The Role of Books in the Revival of the Eastern Civilization Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 15-16 December 2004, (Videotape available).
“Subjunctive Mood in Contemporary Persian”, First Conference on Issues of the Iranian Linguistics, Liepzig: The Max Plank Institute of Evelutionary Anthropology, 2005.
“Teaching the Spoken form of Persian: The importance and strategies”, Fifth Conference of the professors of Persian Language and Literature, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2006.
”Verbal Negation in the Baxtīârī dialect: A typological Study”, The 6th Biennal Conference of Iranian Studies, SOAS, University of London, 2006.
With Behrang Qasemizadeh and Saeed Rahimi, “The First Parallel Multilingual Corpus of Persian: Towards a Persian BLARK”, The Second Workshop on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages, Linguistic Institute, Stanford University, 2007. [*]
“Kinship Terminology in the NW Iranain languages: A report of the ongoing project", In the panel "Iranian Minority Languages", The Orientalist Conference of Germany, Frieburg, Germany, 2007.