The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics
Edited by Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
Author Information
Anousha Sedighi is Professor of Persian and Persian Program Head at Portland State University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa in 2005. She has published on syntax, morphology, and teaching Persian as a heritage language. Her publications include Agreement Restrictions in Persian (Rozenberg/Purdue University Press, 2008; republished in 2011 by Leiden University Press/University of Chicago Press) and Persian in Use: An Elementary Textbook of Language and Culture (Leiden University Press/University of Chicago Press, 2015). She served as the President of the American Association of Teachers of Persian (2014-2016) and she currently sits in the executive board of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages.
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi is Senior Lecturer in Persian Language and Linguistics and Persian Language Program Head at McGill University. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Ottawa in 2012. She has published books and articles on psycholinguistics, particularly on processing compound words in first and second language. Her publications include Processing Compound Verbs in Persian: A Psycholinguistic Approach to Complex Predicates (Leiden University Press/University of Chicago Press 2014), and What the Persian Media Says (Routledge, 2015), as well as the Routledge Introductory Persian Course and Routledge Intermediate Persian Course (2010, 2012, with Dominic Brookshaw). She serves as reviewer for the Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies, the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Lingua, Sage Open Journal, and Frontiers in Psychology.
Contributors:
Seyed Mostafa Assi, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran
Mahmood Bijankhan, University of Tehran
Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam, Allameh Tabataba'i University Tehran
Jila Ghomeshi, University of Manitoba
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, University of Toronto Mississauga
Simin Karimi, University of Arizona
Mauro Maggi, La Sapienza, Rome
Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari, University of Tehran
Shahrzad Mahootian, Northeastern Illinois University
Karine Megerdoomian, Georgetown University
Yahya Modarresi, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran
Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami, Allameh Tabataba'i University Tehran
Reza Nilipour, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran
Paola Orsatti, La Sapienza, Rome
Pollet Samvelian, Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Anousha Sedighi, Portland State University
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, McGill University
