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 AgreementRestrictions 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 RoutledgeIntroductory 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 inPsychology.
1. Introduction, Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi Part I: Classification and History 2. From Old to New Persian, Mauro Maggi and Paola Orsatti 3. Typological approaches and dialects, Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam Part II: The Sound System 4. Phonetics, Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami 5. Phonology, Mahmood Bijankhan 6. Prosody, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour Part III: Syntax 7. Generative approaches to syntax, Simin Karimi 8. Other approaches to syntax, Jila Ghomeshi 9. Specific features of Persian syntax, Pollet Samvelian Part IV: Language and Words 10. Morphology, Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari 11. Lexicography, Seyed Mostafa Assi 12. Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam Part V: Language and People 13. Sociolinguistics, Yahya Modarresi 14. Language contact and multilingualism in Iran, Shahrzad Mahootian 15. Persian as a heritage language, Anousha Sedighi 16. Teaching Persian to speakers of other languages, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi and Anousha Sedighi Part VI: Language, Mind, and Technology 17. Psycholinguistics, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi 18. Neurolinguistics, Reza Nilipour 19. Computational linguistics, Karine Megerdoomian
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