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Eleventh International Conference on Iranian Linguistics
(ICIL 11)

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge,
Cambridge / UK

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Special lectures

Keynote speech:

Prof. Geoffrey Khan (University of Cambridge, UK) Link:
The influence of Iranian languages on Neo-Aramaic dialects

Lecture in cooperation with the Ancient India and Iran Trust:

Prof. Carina Jahani (Uppsala University, Sweden) Link:
The Balochi language: Towards standardization or fragmentation and disintegration?

 


Accepted papers

As 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


Posters

The 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

 

2026-08-10