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Behrooz Mahmoodi Bakhtiari

PERSONAL INFORMATION

EDUCATION

OCCUPATION

COURSES OFFERED

FIELDS OF INTEREST

PUBLICATIONS

TALKS

UNPUBLISHED WORKS

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

REFERENCES

 

PERSONAL INFORMATION

 

NAME: Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
DATE OF BIRTH: 04/01/1974
TELEPHONE: ++98 21 294 66 24
ADDRESS: P. O. Box 19585-589 Tehran, Iran
FAX: ++98 21 879 58 13
E-MAIL: b_m_bakhtiari@yahoo.com


 

EDUCATION

1996 - B.A, English Literature, Allameh Tabataba'i University (ATU), Tehran, Iran
1999 - M.A, Linguistics, ATU
2000 - Ph.D. candidate, Linguistics, ATU. (Degree to be granted 2003) Dissertation: Case Systems in West Iranian Languages: A typological Study
Advisor: Professor Ali-Mohammad Haghshenas

 

OCCUPATION

1997 - Lecturer of English, Persian and Linguistics, Tehran University and Allame Tabataba'i University
1999 - Member of the editorial and research board, Iranian Ministry of Education, Department of Persian language and Literature
2002 - part-time researcher, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Department of Iranology.

 

COURSES OFFERED

• General English.(For different disciplines)
• General Linguistics I and II.(For the students of English)
• The Structure of Persian Language.(For the students of English)
• Persian Grammar.(For different disciplines)
• Principles and methods of translation. (For the students of English)
• Introduction to the Persian dramatic texts. (For the students of Dramatic Literature)

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

Iranian linguistics and dialectology (especially the typological studies), Teaching Persian and English as foreign languages, Persian Linguistics and Literature, Iranian Studies (Iranology)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

I)BOOKS

1) ZANAN-E MOQTADER VA NAM AVAR-E JAHAN (Translation of M. L. Davis's WOMEN WHO CHANGED THE HISTORY). Tehran: Asâr Press, 1996.
2) (With Mohammad Ali Din-Mohammadi). QAVANIN-E TAJAVOZ. (Translation of N. Chomsky et al. ACTS OF AGRESSION). Tehran: Jân-o-Xerad, 2000.
3) (With Mahbod Ghaffari and Hasan Zolfaghari). FARSI BIYAMUZIM! (Let’s Learn Persian!) [A course in Persian Language]. 5+3+3 vols. Tehran: Ministry of Education, 2001.
4) TENSE IN PERSIAN: ITS NATURE AND USE. Munich: Lincom Europa, 2002.
5) GOLESTAN-E ERAM. Tehran: Atâ’I, 2002.
6) JOSTAR HA-YE ?ARQI. (Translation of A. J. Arberry’s ORIENTAL ESSAYS). Tehran: Amir-Kabir, 2003.
7) LESAN-ol-‘AJAM (Editing the manuscript, introduction and explanations) . Tehran: Iranian Academy of Persian language and literature.
8) VA?EGAN-E HAVA?ENASI DAR GUYE? HAYE IRANI. (= Meteorological terms in Iranian dialects). Tehran, The Iranian Academy Press. In Press.
9) SAXT-E ZABAN-E FARSI (=The Structure of Persian Language: A Course Book).In Prep.

II) PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

1) “What is linguistics?” Xâne 1:6, 1996. (in Persian)
2) “Hâniye in the world of linguistics (Review article)”. Ketâb-e Mâh 12: 21-5, 1997. (in Persian)
3) “Edward Sapir and The Language”. Ketâb-e Mâh 14:16, 1997. (in Persian)
4) “The Morpheme -xâne and its Behavior in Persian Morphology”. Zabân-o-adab (Journal of the Faculty of Letters, ATU) 8:10-17, 1997. (in Persian)
5) “Planning the Persian Language in the Samanid Period”. Paper presented at 3rd Conference of Iranian Studies, Bethesda, USA, 2000. (to be published in Iran and Caucasus 6,2002).
6) “Persian writing system: good or inconvenient?” Ro?d 35: 68-79, 2000. (in Persian)
7) “A Comparative Study of Tense Systems in Baluchi and Standard Persian”. Paper presented in the Second International Symposium of Baluchi Studies, Linguistic Contact in Balochistan in Historical and Modern Times. Uppsala University, Sweden, 2000.
8) “Linguistic Innovations in the Poetry of Iraj Mirzâ”. Paper accepted for the first IRANISTIC Symposium, Bamberg, Germany 2000, and presented at thr First World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES), Mainz, Germany, 2002.
9) “The Symposium of Baluchi Studies at Uppsala University (Report)”. Boxârâ 15:327-335, 2000. (in Persian)
10) “The linguistic achievements of Ibn Sinâ”. Paper accepted to be presented at Ibn Sina Conference, Yale University, 2001. To be published in David Reisman (Ed.), Before and After Avicenna. EJ Brill, 2002.
11) “A look at the morphology of the verbs bâyad and ?âyad in Persian”. Paper presented at the Fifth Conference of Linguistics, Tehran: ATU, 2001. (in Persian)
12) (with Mahbod Ghaffari). “A prospective model for teaching Persian Composition”. Paper presented in the 4th Pedagogic-Scientific Assembly for Persian Language and Literature, Yazd, Iran, 2001. (in Persian)
13) “Notes on the linguistic changes of the Arabic and Turkish loan words in Persian.” paper presented in the international symposium: Areas of Iranian-Semitic-Turkic Linguistic Convergence in Historical and Modern Times. Uppsala University, Sweden 2001.
14) “Verbal negation in Bakhtiâri dialect, A typological Study”. . (to be published in Iran and Caucasus 7,2003).
15) “Brâhui”. Entry for Dâyeratolma’âref-e Bozorg-e Eslâmi (The Great Islamic Encyclopedia [GIE]). Vol. 11: 640-642. Tehran: The GIE Foundation. (in Persian) 2002
16) “Sequence of Tenses in Persian”. In L.Guertsenberg (ed.), Proceedings of the Celebration of the 110th Anniversary of Professor Viktor M. Zhimunsky. St.Petersburg,: Russian Academy of Sciences, 2001, PP 122-138
17) “Dorothy Parker and ‘A Telephone Call’”. Golestâne 32:69-71. 2001. (in Persian)
18) “Kârbord-e xo?unat”. (Translation of William Carlos Williams’ ‘The Use of Force’. Azmâ 13: 59-61.,2001.
19) “Vajh-e qâleb”. Translation of Roman Jakobson’s The Dominant. In Farzan Sojudi (Ed.), SAXT GARA-Y-I, PASA-SAXT GARA-Y-I VA MOTALE’AT-E ADAB-I. Tehran: Hoze-y-e Honari-y-e Sâzmân-e Tabliqât-e Eslâmi, 2001. PP.81-9.
20) “Naq?-e zibâyi âfarini, hanjâr va arze?, be masâbe-y-e vâqe’iyyat hâ-y-e ejtemâ’i”. Translation of J.Mukarovsky’s Aestetic function, Norm, Value as social facts. In Farzan Sojudi (Ed.), SAXT GARA-Y-I, PASA-SAXT GARA-Y-I VA MOTALE’AT-E ADAB-I. Tehran: Hoze-y-e Honari-y-e Sâzmân-e Tabliqât-e Eslâmi, 2001. PP.107-15.
21) “The collaboration of present and past tenses in Persian language and literature”. Ro?d 60: 26-33,2002. (in Persian)
22) (With Hasan Reza’i Baghbidi).“ Plural Marking in New West Iranian Languages”. Paper presented in the first ASPS biennial conference, Society, Language and Culture in the Persianate World, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 2002. To be published in Studies of Persianate Societies, 2003.
23) “The Story of Râbe'e and Baktâ?, as narrated by Rezâ-Gholi Khân-e Hedâyat”. Paper accepted to be presented at the 4th Conference of Iranian Studies. Bethesda, MD, USA, 2002.
24) “On the Lorî words in the text of Qor'ân-e Qods”. Paper presented in the conference Iranian Studies in Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. University of Graz, Austria, 2002
25) “On the Morphology of the verb bovad ”. Proceedings of the first conference of Iranology. Tehran: Bonyâd-e Irân ?enâsi, 2002
26) “The Arabic dialect of Arab-Khâne”. Paper accepted to be presented in the 5th AIIDA conference, Spain, 2002
27) “Notes on the songs of mourning and lamentations among the Bakhtiari (Baxtiâri) People”. Paper accepted for the “Second International Conference on Middle Eastern and North African Popular Culture. University of Cartage, Tunis, 2002.
28) “Toxârî” (Tocharian). Entry for Dâyeratolma’âref-e Bozorg-e Eslâmi (The Great Islamic Encyclopedia [GIE]). Tehran: The GIE Foundation. 2002 .(in Persian)
29) “Baluchestan’s step-daughter” (Interview with Dr. Carina Jahani). Boxârâ 21-2:350-358, 2002. (in Persian)
30) (With Faryar Akhlaghi). “A Study of the discoursal characteristics of sport reports in radio and television”. In the Proceedings of the Conference of Persian Language in Radio. Tehran, IRIB Press, 2002 (in Persian)
31) “Iranian Studies in Europe: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Report)”. Boxârâ 24:335-338, 2002. (in Persian)
32) “Francis Gladwin and his Persian Moonshee”. Irân ?enâsi 2:366-378, 2002. (in Persian)
33) “Subjunctive Mood in Persian”. Paper accepted for the 3rd Annual Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002

 

TALKS

1) “Imagery in Sa’di’s Poetry”. Third Triennial Conference of the European Association for Middle eastern Studies (EURAMES). University of Ghent, Belgium, 1999
2) (with Mahbod Ghaffari). “A prospective syllabus for teaching Persian to Muslims” . Lecture delivered at The Regional Workshop for Specialists in Muslim People’s Languages, held by The Islamic Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (ISESCO). Tehran, 2000. (video tape available).

 

UNPUBLISHED/UNPRESENTED WORKS

• Review of Jafar Hasanpoor (1999) A Study of European, Persian and Arabic Loans in Standard Sorani.
• Interview with Dr. Hormoz Milanian (in Persian)
• Mark Twain’s My Watch. (in Persian)
• The settlement of Persian language in the Samanid time (in Persian)
• “Comrie”. Entry for Philipp Strazny (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. (to be published in 2003).
• “Phonetic and Phonological Typology”. Entry for Philipp Strazny (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. (to be published in 2003).
• “Syntactic Typology”. Entry for Philipp Strazny (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. (to be published in 2003).
• “Indo-Iranian Languages”. Entry for Philipp Strazny (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. (to be published in 2003).
• “Xurî”. Entry for Dâne?nâme-y-e Jahân-e Eslâm (The Encyclopedia of Islamic World [EIW]). Tehran: The EIW Foundation. (to be published in 2004) .(in Persian)
• “Stories of Sandbâd-Nâme”. Entry for H.Zolfaqâri and M.Qolâm (eds.) Dâyeratolma’âref-e Dâstan-hâye Fârsi.
• “Stories of Tuti-Nâme”. Entry for H.Zolfaqâri and M.Qolâm (eds.) Dâyeratolma’âref-e Dâstan-hâye Fârsi.

 

MEMBERSHIP IN LEARNED SOCIETIES

Linguistic Society of America.(LSA)
Society of Iranian Studies (SIS)
American Association of Teachers of Persian (AATP)
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)
Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE)
Iranian Society of Linguistics.

 

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2001 ASPS Travel fellowship (Grant No.00/11) to attend the IBN SINA conference at Yale University.

 

REFERENCES

Dr. Ali-Mohammad Haghshenas
Professor and Head, Department of linguistics, Tehran University.

Dr. Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam,
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran.

Dr. Hasan Rezai Baghbidi,
Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Iranology,
Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran.