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2026-08-10
Eleventh International Conference on Iranian Linguistics
(ICIL 11)Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge / UK
Program
(to follow)
Abstract booklet (to follow)
Special lectures
Keynote speech:
Prof. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge, UK):
The influence of Iranian languages on Neo-Aramaic dialectsLecture in cooperation with the Ancient India and Iran Trust:
Prof. Carina Jahani (Uppsala University, Sweden):
The Balochi language: Towards standardization or fragmentation and disintegration?
Accepted papersAs a result of the anonymous reviewing, the following abstracts were accepted:
Papers
The following abstracts were accepted as presentations:
Ailar Amany, Hamed Rahmani
& Mahmood Bijankhan:Resolving paratactic ambiguity in colloquial Persian: Prosodic criteria for clause boundary identification Alexandra Anokhina: Aspectual meanings of the =3SG enclitic in Ishkashimi Boban Arsenijević & Nastaran Divani: The affix-clitic split in the realization of anaphoric subjects in Kurdish: Concrete effects of Kaynean abstract heads Artyom Badeev: Non-contrastive spatial use of demonstratives in Bartangi: the unmarked demonstrative Maryam Bahmani, Hamed Rahmani
& Mahmood Bijankhan:When pitch accent cannot move: The grammar and pragmatics of focus marking in Persian Oleg Belyaev & Artyom Badeev: Innovation through deletion: A new preterite stem in Jalqan Tat Harald Bichlmeier & Maria Carmela Benvenuto : Agent flagging in passive constructions across Old Iranian: A comparative study of Avestan and Old Persian Milad Bigdeloo: The development of /rd/ > /rδ/ in Balkh: New evidence from Early New Persian and its implications for Bactrian phonology Christopher Culver: A Proto-Iranian word for 'lynx'? Alessandro Del Tomba: Consonant lenition and orthographic restructuring in Khotanese Marco Fattori: Aspects of language contact in the borrowing of Indic verbs into Khotanese Valentine Guillocheau: The Expression of Possibility in Middle Iranian Languages Steven Kaye: Identifying endoclisis in Northern Talyshi verb morphology Ronald Kim: The Ossetic infinitive and r/n-stems in Iranian Agnes Korn: Non-verbal predication in Balochi Martin Kümmel: The development of short vowels in Pashto: Closed vs. open syllables? Bettina Leitner, Erik Anonby
& Mortaza Taheri-Ardali:Arabic of Rudbâr in north-east Ilam Province, Iran: Peripheral and contact features in an undocumented Arabic variety Yury Makarov & Sofia Sedunova : Exploring Shughni prosody: Lexical stress and intonation Roohollah Mofidi: The role of animacy and referentiality features in the development of Differential Object Marking in New Persian (10th-20th centuries) Roohollah Mofidi & Klaus von Heusinger: Differential Argument Indexing in a split agreement system: A prominence-oriented analysis of Nayini Masoud Mohammadirad: Differential object marking in Hewramî: A corpus study Raha Musavi: Demonstratives, linkers, and the structure of the noun phrase: The DET (î) MOD HEAD alternation in Middle Persian Flavia Pompeo: The last simple ablative? Remarks on the Old Persian form afuvâyâ Hamideh Poshtvan: Progressive constructions in Gilaki: Structural variation and geographic distribution Zakharia Pourtskhvanidze & Marina Beridze : Modality as a seismograph of contact: The restructuring of modal complementation in Fereydani Georgian Davide Scarfagna: Defining "Kulobi Proper": Dialectological Categories and Sociolinguistic Realities in Contemporary Southern Tajikistan Niels Schoubben & Alan Avdagić: Syncope and stress placement in Pre-Bactrian and Proto-Yidgha-Munji Nicholas Sims-Williams: The word for 'daughter' in Sogdian and Khotanese Robert Tegethoff, Jakob Halfmann,
Alan Avdagić & Haroon Ur Rashid:Crossroads of the Hindu Kush: The loan relations of Yidgha and Munji Olga Tuzhik & Natalia Serdobolskaya: Discourse prominence in differential object marking: the case of Iron Ossetic Sima Zolfaghari: From sheep to shade: Color, livestock, and ecological knowledge in Bakhtiari
Standby presentations
Ahmet Kesmez & Nevzat Anuk: Zazaki as a matrix language: An analysis of Zazaki-Turkish code-switching Arseniy Vydrin: Inchoative in Yaghnobi Iskandar Ding: Temporally neutral perfect copulas and mirativity in Central Asian Iranian
PostersThe following abstracts were accepted as posters:
Ebrahim Ahmadinia: Morphosyntactic variation in Amir Âbâdi, a Gorani variety spoken in Mazandaran Asael Benyami: Beyond Ezâfe: Towards a typology of nominal modification strategies in Iranian languages Svenja Bonmann: Creating a digital corpus of the Issyk-Kushan inscriptions: Progress and challenges Viktoria Borisova & Varvara Nerush: Reanalysis of Ossetic suffix -gaj as distributive share marker Matteo De Chiara: On the origin of the "injunctive" in Pashto Mehdi Fattahi & Tahereh Jafari: Diachronic counter-bleeding interaction of phonological processes: A case study in Kalhori Kurdish Helen Giunashvili: Concerning Middle Persian-Old Georgian morphosyntactic isoglosses (complex predicates) Shuan Karim & Mahîr Dogan: Ad-verbal adpositions in Zazakî and its sisters Yury Makarov & Oleg Belyaev: Mapping etymological relations: A digital cartographic approach to the Ossetic lexicon Hamideh Poshtvan & Erik Anonby: Mapping grammatical features of Gilan's Iranic languages Davide Procaccino: On the trail of Proto-Iranian *l: the position of Ossetic Sara Sharifpour: A new perspective on Persian progressives Elia Weber: Five grammatically unexpected forms in a Younger Avestan list of oblations