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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, February 25, 2022 11:00 am to 12:
 00 pm \n Online via Zoom \n\nSpeakers \nMohammad Dabir-Moghaddam \n\nDescr
 iption: \nKhorasan: An Untapped Linguistic Area of IranThe Elahé Omidyar M
 ir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies presents the Iranian Languages and
  Linguistics Lecture Series “Khorasan: An Untapped Linguistic Area of Iran
 ”, presented by Professor Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam, Allameh Tabataba’i U
 niversity, Tehran.Khorasan, which is located in the east of Iran, has h
 istorically been a land of many languages and dialects, both native and n
 on-native. The languages spoken here are important for understanding the h
 istorical and present-day nature of the Iranian language family. Persian o
 r Persian-related varieties currently spoken in Khorasan include, among m
 any others, the native language of Ferdows, whose historical name is Tun
 ; the native languages of Khanik and Se Ghal'e; and the now-extinct dial
 ect of Birjand. These varieties show typological peculiarities which are u
 nattested in the Iranian languages currently spoken in any other part of I
 ran, but which can be found in a number of Classical Persian texts writte
 n in Khorasan. Whereas other Iranian languages are sensitive to both Trans
 itivity and Tense in the structuring of participant reference in the verb 
 system, the above-mentioned languages of Khorasan exhibit a split system 
 of verbal alignment based specifically on Tense. This presentation explore
 s the reasons for these linguistic differences and the factors which have 
 been influential in the restructuring of the system, with a focus on the 
 former dialect of Birjand. Finally, theoretical implications of the findi
 ngs will be discussed from the perspective of current linguistic paradigms
 .Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam received his PhD in linguistics from the Univers
 ity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982. He is a professor of linguist
 ics in Allameh Tabataba'i University (Tehran) and is also a permanent memb
 er of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature. He is the author of 
 many of articles and the following books: Theoretical Linguistics: Emergen
 ce and Development of Generative Grammar; Typology of Iranian Languages (
 2 volumes); and Linguistics: An Iranian Perspective. Register in advance 
 for this meeting: https://uoft.me/IranianLanguages After registering for t
 he series, you will receive a confirmation email containing information a
 bout joining the meeting. \n\nCategories \n Lectures \n\nAudiences \n Comm
 unityFacultyGraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students
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SUMMARY:Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies Lecture Seri
 es 'Khorasan: An Untapped Linguistic Area of Iran'
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