The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics

• 1: Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi: Introduction


• Part I: Classification and History


• 2: Mauro Maggi and Paola Orsatti: From Old to New Persian


• 3: Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam: Typological approaches and dialects


• Part II: The Sound System


• 4: Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami: Phonetics


• 5: Mahmood Bijankhan: Phonology


• 6: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour: Prosody


• Part III: Syntax


• 7: Simin Karimi: Generative approaches to syntax


• 8: Jila Ghomeshi: Other approaches to syntax


• 9: Pollet Samvelian: Specific features of Persian syntax


• Part IV: Language and Words


• 10: Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari: Morphology


• 11: Seyed Mostafa Assi: Lexicography


• 12: Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam: Academy of Persian Language and Literature


• Part V: Language and People


• 13: Yahya Modarresi: Sociolinguistics


• 14: Shahrzad Mahootian: Language contact and multilingualism in Iran


• 15: Anousha Sedighi: Persian as a heritage language


• 16: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Anousha Sedighi: Teaching Persian to speakers of other languages


• Part VI: Language, Mind, and Technology


• 17: Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi: Psycholinguistics


• 18: Reza Nilipour: Neurolinguistics


• 19: Karine Megerdoomian: Computational linguistics

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.

This hefty volume is a major achievement. John R. Perry, Journal of Near Eastern Studies