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This page includes abstracts and handouts for recent talks presented at conferences and workshops, which have not been written up as papers, organized by topic.
Heritage Persian and Language Teaching
Difficulties for Learning Persian as a Second Language
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- Keynote speech; presented at the Workshop for Teachers of Persian, at the University of Maryland, College Park; January 25-26, 2008.
Testing the Linguistic Competence of Persian Heritage Speakers (with Ilhan Cagri and Scott Jackson)
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- Talk presented at the Second Language Research Forum: Colloquium on Understanding the interlanguage systems of heritage language learners, in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois; October 2007.
Complex Predicates
Preverbal nominals and telicity in Persian complex predicates
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- Talk presented at the International Conference on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages in Paris, France; July 2008.
On Incorporation in Persian Verbal Predicates
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- Talk presented at the Second International Conference on Iranian Linguistics in Hamburg, Germany; August 2007.
A Typology of Persian Complex Predicates
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- Talk presented at the International Conference on Aspects of Iranian Linguistics in Leipzig, Germany; June 2005.
Reflexive Verbs and Voice Morphology in Eastern Armenian
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- Talk presented at the Workshop on Armenian Syntax, Pithiviers, France, May 2005.
Asymmetries in Form and Meaning: Surface Realization and Interface Conditions
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- Talk presented at the Approaching Asymmetry at the Interfaces Conference, Montreal, Canada, October 2003.
Aspect in Complex Predicates.
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- Talk presented at the Workshop on Complex Predicates, Particles and Subevents, University of Konstanz, Germany. Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2002.
Primitive Elements of Verbal Predicates: Evidence from Persian.
[handout]
- Talk presented at the Workshop on Syntax of Predication, ZAS, Berlin, Germany. Nov. 2-3, 2001.
Complex Predicates in Persian
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- Invited talk, presented at the First Workshop on New Trends in Linguistics, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. May 27-29, 2001; and at Workshop on Issues in Persian Linguistics, Islamic Azad University at Khorasgan, Isfahan, Iran. June 2, 2001.
Theories of Verb Formation.
[handout]
- Invited lecture, presented at New Trends in Linguistics Workshop, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran. May 27-29, 2001.
Case and vP Structure
Second position, focus and mutliple spell-out: Toward an analysis of the Armenian auxiliary (with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour)
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- Talk to be presented at the Meeting Clitics, Barcelona, Spain; August 2008.
Some bare nouns are more equal than others
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- Invited talk presented at the USC Student Workshop 2008, Los Angeles; May 7, 2008.
Second position clitics in the vP Phase: The case of the Armenian auxiliary (with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour)
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- Talk presented at the LSA 2008, Chicago; January 2008.
The auxiliary clitic and sentential stress in Eastern Armenian
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- Talk presented at the GURT 2007: Little words - their history, phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and acquisition at Georgetown University, Washington, DC; March 2007.
Parallel Domains and the Projection of Arguments.
[handout]
- USC-GSIL Student Workshop. University of Southern California, Los Angeles. April 29, 2002.
Morphology-Phonology Interface
The Derivation/Inflection Distinction and Post-Syntactic Merge
(with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour)
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- Talk presented at the Canadian Linguistic Association, University of Toronto, Canada. May 25-28, 2002.
Computational Linguistics
Building Computational Resources and Processors for Persian and Armenian
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- Invited lecture, presented at NATO Advanced Study Institute on Low- and Middle-Density Languages. Batumi, Georgia. October 2007.
Machine Translation of Persian Complex Predicates (with Jan W. Amtrup)
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- Talk presented at the Second International Conference on Iranian Linguistics in Hamburg, Germany; August 2007.
Finite State Morphology: A Tutorial
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- Invited lecture, presented at Tehran University, June 2006.
Introduction to Persian Computational Linguistics
- Invited lecture, presented at Tehran University, May 2004.
Unification-Based Computational Morphology of Persian
- Guest lecturer for the course Approaches to Computational Morphology at the 1999 Summer School in Language Engineering, New Mexico State University, Summer 1999.
A Brief Introduction to Persian: A Computational Analysis.
- Invited talk, presented at the Seminar Series of the Computing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, May 8, 1998.
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