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My research is focused on various syntactic topics within Chomskyan theoretical framework. I have worked extensively on word order and scrambling, the interaction of syntax and discourse (focus and topic), the syntax, semantics and morphology of complex predicate constructions, and complex DPs (including relative clauses), among some other topics. My current research includes control constructions, ellipsis, and the syntax and semantics of complex predicates in various Iranian languages.
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Courses
  • B
    Biolinguistics

  • LED
    Linguistic Elicitation and Documentation

  • ITS
    Introduction To Syntax

  • MWST
    Major Works in Syntactic Theory

  • FST
    Foundations of Syntactic Theory

  • IL
    Introduction to Linguistics

  • AST
    Advanced Syntactic Theory

Grants
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    Documentation and Comparative Grammatical Analysis of Aspects of Five Iranian Languages

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2019

    $388.4K
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    A Descriptive and Theoretical Analysis of Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $287.4K
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    A Descriptive and Theoretical Analysis of Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2015

    $8.6K
News
  • Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute supports UArizona graduate students and faculty with $2.5M

    2022

  • Noam Chomsky Teaches Linguistics to UA Students

    2016

  • Noam Chomsky to Return to UA

    2015

  • UA Working to Rescue Native Languages

    2013

  • The Chomsky-UA Connection

    2012

Publications (12)
Recent
  • Contrast in focus: Persian and Turkish focus constructions

    2019

  • (un)availability of idiomatic interpretations in Persian light verb-stranding ellipsis

    2019

  • Sorani Prepositional Object Clitics: A Case of Post-syntactic Cliticization

    2019

  • Another Look at Persian Râ: A Single Formal Analysis of A Multi-Functional Morpheme

    2019

  • Parameters: What are they, where are they

    2017

  • Parallelism and specificity in Persian Non-Verbal Element ellipsis

    2017

  • Subject-Object Asymmetries in Persian Argument Ellipsis and the Anti-Agreement Theory

    2016

  • Argument Ellipsis in Persian and Inhibitory Phi-Agreement

    2014

  • Arbitrary Control

    2014

  • Contrast in Focus: Persian and Turkish Focus Constructions .

    2014

  • Another Look at RA in Persian

    2014

  • A Generalization Concerning the EZAFE Construction in Persian

    2012

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