Interests

• Natural language processing of less commonly taught languages, specializing on Persian and other Iranian languages.
• Complex verbal predicates: light verb constructions in Persian, causative and inchoative structures in Armenian.
• Syntactic theory, morphology-syntax interface and lexical semantics.

Education
Ph.D. in Linguistics, University of Southern California
B.S. in Physics, University of Southern California

Languages
Persian, Eastern Armenian, English, French (native/near-native).
Western Armenian, Italian, Spanish (reading and basic conversation proficiency).
Working knowledge of German, Russian and Arabic.

I also maintain the following websites:

• Society for Iranian Linguistics
• CAASL website for the workshops on Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages.

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