Attendance: The workshop is open to interested persons; if you intend to participate, please send an email with your name and address to admin.aspra@uni-bamberg.de
Programme: The workshop programme can be found here(111.6 KB).
Selected presentation slides:
?Leitner, Bettina. 2022. Word order in Khuzestani Arabic (with some notes on Bushehr and Hormozgan Arabic).
?Rasekh-Mahand, Mohammad. 2022. Forty years after Frommer: Post-predicate elements in Persian.
?Schreiber, Laurentia & Janse, Mark. 2022. Word order & post-predicate elements in Romeyka.
Organizers: Geoffrey Haig, Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand, Laurentia Schreiber, Nils Schiborr.
How to get to the institute: The Institute for Oriental Studies is in the building at Schillerplatz 17, but it is a little hard to find. When you are at the Schillerplatz, look for the Italian restaurant Salino at one end of the square. On its right side there is a bus stop and further to the right a narrow street leading to a parking lot. Just behind that parking lot you'll see a rather new white building, which is Schillerplatz 17. The picture shows the restaurant on the left and the street leading to the parking lot on the right.
Iranian languages are routinely classified as "verb final". While this is true with regard to the position of (non-pronominal) direct objects, which are generally pre-verbal, in several West Iranian languages, certain other constituents occur more or less systematically after the verb. The result is a typologically unusual and hitherto largely ignored OVX word order type within West Iranian. Furthermore, OVX word order has been identified in unrelated languages in contact with Iranian, including Turkic, and Neo-Aramaic.
Click here(251.3 KB, 13 pages) for the position paper.
This project brings together leading international experts on Iranian and neighbouring languages in order to explore
Datasets from the project are successively uploaded to this website, where they are available for quantitative analysis. Data sets include minimally a spreadsheet with coded data and metadata; most data sets also include the source texts (e.g. as pdf) and sound files. The architecture of the corpus largely follows the design implemented in MultiCAST.
The associated scholars meet once a year for three years, with the aim of producing a multi-lingual survey of post-predicate structures across Iranian and neighbouring languages. Click here for the first workshop (Bamberg 6-7th September 2019)
