Prof. Dr. Saloumeh Gholami Professor of Minority Languages in the Middle
East Institute of Empirical Linguistics Faculty of Linguistics, Cultures and Arts Goethe University Frankfurt Address: Dantestr. 9, (4th floor) 60325 Frankfurt am Main Germany E-Mail: gholami@em.uni-frankfurt.de |
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Main Research: · Minority Languages in the Middle East · Language Documentation · Digitization and Preservation of Endangered Heritage · Philology of Iranian Languages · Zoroastrian Manuscript and Language |
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2020 |
Professor for
Minority Languages in the Middle East, Goethe University of Frankfurt (Universitätsprofessorin) |
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2018 - 2020 |
Feodor Lynen Research
Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. Granted by Alexander von Humboldt
Foundation |
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2011 - 2018 |
Research Fellow
at the Institute of Empirical Linguistics, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am
Main, Germany |
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2007 - 2009 |
Research and
teaching assistant at the Seminar for Iranian Studies at the University of
Göttingen, Germany |
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2006 - 2011 |
Assistant
lecturer for “Iranian Art History”, “The Analysis of Islamic Art”, and “Art
and Culture in Shahname” and tutor for
Modern Persian at the Seminar for Iranian Studies at the University of
Göttingen, Germany |
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International Funded Research
Projects, Grants and Cooperations: |
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2020 |
LOEWE-Schwerpunkt “Minority Studies: Language and Identity” |
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2018 - 2020 |
Feodor Lynen
Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. Granted by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
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2018 |
Endangered
Iranian Languages: Language Islands and Language Contact, Application for
support of conferences. Granted by
Fritz Thyssen Foundation |
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2017 - 2018 |
Preservation and
digitization of Zoroastrian historical documents and Avestan
manuscripts. Granted by
The Endangered Archives Programme, British Library,
London, United Kingdom (EAP 1014) |
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2017 |
Innovative Forschung und Lehre durch Digitalisierung und Bewahrung einer neuen Sammlung awestischer Handschriften in Yazd. Granted by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany (09-1705-0115) |
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2016 - 2017 |
Cooperation with
video installation project at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies). Granted by
ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme),
University of London, United Kingdom. |
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2016 - 2017 |
Localization, digitization, and preservation of Zoroastrian historical documents and Avestan manuscripts. A Cooperation between two German Universities (Goethe Universität Frankfurt & Freie Universität Berlin) and Bahonar University of Kerman in Iran. |
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2016 |
Grant for
lecture journey in Iran. Granted by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) |
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2015 - 2018 |
“The colophons
of the Iranian Avestan manuscripts” (GH 144/1-1) – Granted
by DFG (German Research Foundation) |
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2015 - 2017 |
“Editing Avestan Network” – Granted by DFG (German Research Foundation) |
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2013 - 2015 |
“Documenting a
religious minority, the Dari dialect of Kerman”, Individual Postdoctoral
Grant. Granted by
ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme),
SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), University of London |
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2014 – 2016 |
“German-Iranian
Cooperation on Zoroastrian Studies” DFG grant to support the initiation of
international collaboration. Granted by
DFG (German Research Foundation) |
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2013 - 2015 |
“Dance in Iran:
Past and Present”, an international cooperation between Goethe-Universität in
Frankfurt and Les Ballets Persans in Solna, Sweden. and
the Institute of Persian Performing Arts in California, United States of
America. |
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2012 |
“Zoroastrianism
in Iran”, a research Stays Grant, Funded by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main in Germany. |
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2011 - 2012 |
“The position of
Bactrian among Middle Iranian Languages” Granted by
the Federal Ministry of Education and Research via Minerva Foundation (Project
West-Iranian Dialectology) and Soudavar Foundation |
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2011 |
Frankfurt FGS-
Research-Assistantship.
Granted by DAAD
(German Academic Exchange Service) |
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2010 - 2013 |
Scholarship by
the Soudavar Memorial Foundation in
Switzerland. |
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2007 - 2009 |
Scholarship by Houtan Foundation in United States of America |
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Organization of Conferences, Workshops
and Summer Schools: |
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DEC 2019 |
Workshop of
Language documentation software and tools ELAN, FLEX, Allameh
Tabataba'i University, Tehran, Iran. |
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OCT 19 - 20, 2018 |
Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Islands and
Language Contact, a cooperation with Freie Universität Berlin, at Liebniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. |
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OCT 10 - 17, 2018 |
Fall School on Documentary Linguistics in the Mena
Region, a cooperation with Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, SOAS in University of London, United Kingdom. & Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany. |
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AUG 2018 |
Workshop on
Language Documentation, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia. |
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JAN 23 - 27, 2018 |
Workshop on
"Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)" at Liebniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany |
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DEC 8, 2017 |
Symposium on “Ein bedrohtes Erbe: Zoroastrische Handschriften, historische Dokumente, Sprache” Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. |
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OCT 21 - 22, 2017 |
Workshop on “The
aims and purpose of questionnaires in language documentation” Allameh Tabataba'i University in
Tehran, Iran. |
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OCT 23, 2017 |
Workshop on
“Essentials of Language Documentation” University of Tehran, Iran. |
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MAR 23 - 24, 2017 |
Conference on
“Editing the Avestan Texts in the 21st Century;
Problems and Perspectives” Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
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FEB 9, 2017 |
Workshop on “A
New Collection of Avestan Manuscripts from Iran (Pouladi’s Collection)” Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
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JUL 8 - 9, 2016 |
International
Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages (ISEIL) University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. |
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FEB 21 - 22, 2016 |
Workshop on
“Essentials of Language Documentation” Department of
Linguistics, the Allameh Tabataba'i
University, Tehran, Iran. |
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FEB 27 - MAR 2, 2016 |
International Workshop on
Documentation of Endangered Iranian Languages, Department of English
Language and Literature at Persian Gulf University in Bushehr, Iran. Organized by Carleton
University in Ottawa, Canada. Funded by Encyclopædia Iranica in
Columbia University in New York, United States of America. |
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OCT 27 - 28, 2015 |
Workshop on
“Language Documentation, Annotation Tools and Meta Data Management” Department of
Linguistics, University of Tehran, Iran. |
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OCT 20 - 21, 2015 |
International
Seminar on Ancient Iranian Languages, Shahid Bahonar
University of Kerman, Iran. |
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FEB 22 - MAR 5, 2014 |
Workshop on
“Iranian Dialectology” Department of
Ancient Culture and Languages, University of Tehran, Iran. |
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FEB 21 - 23, 2015 |
International
Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages (ISEIL) Empirical
Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. |
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AUG 4 - 12, 2014 |
Workshop on
“Annotation Tools: Elan and Flex” Empirical
Linguistics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany. |
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DEC 2019 |
„Data collection methods in language and culture
documentation “, Persian Gulf University, Bushehr, Iran |
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DEC 2019 |
„Typology of Iranian
languages from a historical perspective, Kurdistan Studies Institute “, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran |
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DEC 2019 |
„Reconstruction of Old Hamadani
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DEC 2019 |
„Reconstruction of Old Hamadani
“, Academy of Persian Language and Literature, Iran |
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OCT 2019 |
„New discoveries in Avestan
manuscript studies “, University of Tehran, Iran |
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SEP 2019 |
„Minority languages as a
device of reconstruction - the example of Hamdani “, Ninth European Conference of
Iranian Studies (ECIS 9), Berlin |
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JUL 2019 |
„Endangered Zoroastrian
heritage of Iran: New insights from recently discovered manuscripts “, Zoroastrian
Trust Funds of Europe, London, UK |
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MAY 2019 |
„Endangered Zoroastrian heritage of Iran: New
insights from recently discovered manuscripts “, SOAS, Universität London, UK |
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MAY 2019 |
„Endangered Zoroastrian heritage of Iran: New insights
from recently discovered manuscripts “, Ancient India and Iran Trust,
Cambridge, UK |
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MAR 2019 |
„Is Old-Hamadani reconstructable? “Fourth International Conference
on Iranian Languages and Dialects, Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia,
Teheran, Iran |
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JAN 2019 |
„Colophons and marginal notes of the Iranian Avestan manuscripts “, Shahid Bahonar
University of Kerman, Iran |
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FEB 2019 |
„Language death and the importance of language
documentation “, International Conference on Mother Language in Cultural
Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran “, Teheran, Iran |
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DEC 2018 |
„Typology of Iranian Languages “, Buali-Sina Universität, Hamadan, Iran |
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DEC 2017 |
“Die Dialektologie der Kolophone der awestischen Handschriften”. Symposium on “Ein bedrohtes Erbe: Zoroastrische Handschriften, historische Dokumente, Sprache”, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. |
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Oct 15 - 16, 2017 |
“Typology of
Iranian languages: Old and new theories”. The Second International Seminar of
Iranian Languages, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran. |
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MAR 23 - 24, 2017 |
“Editing the colophons of the Avestan manuscripts”. Conference on “Editing the Avestan Texts in the 21st Century; Problems and Perspectives”. Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
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FEB 9, 2017 |
“Avestan manuscripts in Arbāb
Mehraban Poulad’s
Collection and remarks on the colophon of the Videvdad
1022 Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. |
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MAR 4, 2017 |
“Dialectology of
Eastern Iranian Languages”. Department of
Ancient Culture and Languages, University of Tehran, Iran. |
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OCT 2016 |
“Newly found Avestan manuscripts from Iran and editing the Avestan texts”. Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran. |
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JUL 2016 |
“Pronominal
clitics in Zoroastrian Dari (Behdini) of Kerman”,
In the Second International Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages, CNRS,
University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. |
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APR 2016 |
“Dialectal
phonological variations in the colophons of the Avestan
Manuscripts”, CNRS, University
of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, France. |
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FEB 2015 |
“Zoroastrian
Dari and a dialect map”. In the first International Symposium on Endangered
Iranian Languages, Empirical
Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. |
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FEB 2014 |
“Language
documentation and computer tools”, Department of
Ancient Culture and Languages, Tehran University, Iran. |
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FEB 2014 |
“European
Projects on Iranian Studies”, Academy of
Persian Language and Literature, Tehran, Iran. |
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DEC 2014 |
“Documenting of
a religious minority, Zoroastrian Dari in Kerman”, Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran. |
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AUG 2013 |
“The Position of
Zoroastrian Dari among the Western Iranian Languages”, in the fifth
International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL5), University of
Bamberg in Bamberg, Germany |
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SEP 2013 |
“Zoroastrian
Dari”, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London, United Kingdom. |
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NOV 2013 |
“The role of Salmargs and colophons in the story of priest and scribe
families”, University of Salamanca, Spain |
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JUL 2012 |
“Discovering the
new Avestan manuscripts in Iran”, Empirical Linguistics,
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. |
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JUN 2012 |
“Clitics in
Middle Iranian languages”. In the first International Conference of Iranian
Languages and Dialects: Past and Present, Centre for the
Great Islamic Encyclopedia, Tehran, Iran |
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NOV 2011 |
“Codicology in
Middle Persian Manuscripts”, Empirical
Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. |
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2020 |
♦ Gholami, S. „The collection of Avestan manuscripts of the Ataš Varahrām in Yazd. “In: Estudios Iranios y Turanios. |
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2019 |
♦ Gholami, S. and Pouladi, M., „Colophons and Marginal Notes of the Avestan Manuscripts of the Pouladi’s Collection in Yazd. “In: Iranian Studies, Volume 52, 2019, Issue 1-2, pp. 3-59. |
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2019 |
♦ Gholami, S.,
„Typology of Iranian languages: Old theories and new outcomes. “In: Mehri
Bagheri and Abbas Azarandaz (eds.): Proceedings of
the Second International Seminar of Iranian Languages (Kerman, October 15 to 16,
2017). Bahonar University of Kerman. |
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2018 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh
forthcoming: “Typology of Iranian languages: Old and new theories.” In: Bagheri, M. and Azarandaz A.: Proceedings of the Second International
Seminar of Iranian Languages (Kerman, October 15 to 16,
2017). Bahonar University of Kerman. |
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2018 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“Loanwords in Bactrian.” In: Quarterly Journal of Language and Inscription, Vol. II, No.1, pp. 17-37. |
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2018 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh: “Pronominal Clitics in Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) of Kerman”. In: Saloumeh Gholami (ed.), Endangered Iranian Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 111-122. |
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2018 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the colophons and Sālmargs
of Iranian Avestan manuscripts”. In: Iranian Studies 51:2, pp. 195-211. |
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2017 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“Colophons, more than a scribe’s memorial.” In: Bagheri, M. and Azarandaz A.: Proceedings of the
International Seminar of Ancient Iranian Languages (Kerman, October 20 to 21,
2015). Bahonar University of Kerman, pp. 13-29. |
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2016 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“Zoroastrians of Iran vi. Linguistic documentation.” In: Encyclopaedia
Iranica, Columbia University, USA. |
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2015 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“The Death of Zoroastrian Dari in Kerman”, In: The Middle East in
London, SOAS, University of London, Vol. 11, N. 5, October-November 2015, pp.
7,8. |
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2015 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“The role of clitics in the Middle Iranian Languages”. In: Proceedings of the First
International Conference on Iranian Languages and dialects. Tehran: The Center for the
Great Islamic Encyclopedia. |
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2015 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“Compound Strategies in Middle Iranian Languages.” In: Krasnowolska/
Rusek-Kowalska (eds.): Studies on the Iranian
World: Before Islam. Proceedings of the 7thEuropean Conferences of Iranian
Studies (Cracow 2011). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Publishing House, pp.
27-45. |
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2012 |
♦
Gholami, Saloumeh: “Dāstān-e Videvdād-e 1004.” (The story of an Avestan
manuscript: Videvdād-e 1004) In: Fravahr No.453 (1391), pp. 29-31. |
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2011 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
“Definite articles in Bactrian.” In: Korn/ Haig/ Karimi/ Samvelian
(eds.): Topics in Iranian Linguistics. Beiträge zur Iranistik, Band 34, pp. 11-22. |
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2009 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh: “Ergativity in Bactrian.” In: Studia Iranica Upsaliensia, Vol. LVIII, pp. 132-141. |
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2009 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh: “Demonstratives and Determiners in Bactrian.” In: From Daēnā to Dîn: Religion, Kultur und Sprache in der iranischen Welt: Festschrift für Philip Kreyenbroek zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 19-26. |
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2020 |
♦ Special Issue of Iranian Studies Journal (Taylor & Francis) on „Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran. “ |
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2018 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh (ed.): Endangered Iranian Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert |
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2016
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♦ Gholami, Saloumeh; Farahmand, Armita: Zoroastrian
Dari (Behdīnī) in Kerman. Estudios Iranios y Turanios Supplementa, Didactica. 1, Girona. |
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2016 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh (ed.): Dance in Iran: Past and Present. Wiesbaden: Reichert. |
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2014 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh: Selected features of Bactrian grammar. Göttinger Orientforschungen. III. Reihe: Iranica. Neue Folge. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. |
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2014 |
♦ Gholami, Saloumeh:
The Avestan manuscript 4040 (Ave1001), Videvdad Iranian Sade of the Private Collection of Kourosh Niknam. Avestan Digital Archive Series 76. |
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2017 |
Review
of “Die Entwicklung der Ergativkonstruktion im Alt- und Mitteliranischen
− Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung zu Kasus, Kongruenz und Satzbau [The
development of the ergative construction in Old and Middle Iranian: A
corpus-based approach]. Iranica 21, ed. by Maria Macuch,
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.” In: Quarterly Journal of
Language and Inscription, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 53-61. |
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2015 |
Review of “Sims-Williams, Nicholas 2010: Iranisches Personennamenbuch. Band II: Mitteliranische Personennamen, Fasz.7: Bactrian Personal Names. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.” In: Orientalische Literaturzeitung 2015; 110(1):1-5. |
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2013 |
Review of “Bactrian Documents from Northern
Afghanistan. III: Plates. Studies in the Khalili Collection, Vol. 3. CIIr. Pt. 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian
Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 4, Bactrian. By Nicholas
Sims-Williams. pp. 270. Oxford, The Nour Foundation in association with
Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 2012.” |
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2013 |
Review of “Bactrian
Documents from Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and Economic Documents (revised
edition). Studies in the Khalili Collection, vol. 3. CIIr.
Pt. 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran
and Central Asia. Vol. 4, Bactrian. By Nicholas Sims-Williams. pp. 171.
Oxford, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford
University Press, 2012.” In: Journal of the Royal
Asiatic Society 23 (2013), pp. 389-396. |
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Full list
of courses taught at the Institute of Empirical Linguistics at
Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt, Germany |
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SS 2020 |
Linguistic Minorities |
SS 2020 |
Avesta I |
SS 2020 |
Linguistic Fieldwork and Language Documentation |
SS 2020 |
Zazaki I |
SS 2018 |
Old Persian |
WS 2017 / 2018 |
Persian II |
SS 2017 |
Persian I |
WS 2016 / 2017 |
Middle Persian II |
SS 2016 |
Middle Persian I |
WS 2015 / 2016 |
Gilaki |
SS 2015 |
New Persian II |
WS 2014 / 2015 |
New Persian I |
SS 2014 |
Zoroastrian Dari II |
WS 2013 / 2014 |
Zoroastrian Dari I |
SS 2013 |
Old Persian II |
WS 2012 / 2013 |
Old Persian I |
SS 2012 |
Pashto II |
WS 2011 / 2012 |
Pashto I |
SS 2011 |
Bactrian |
SS 2011 |
The History of Iranian Art |
SS 2011 |
Pre-Islamic Art in Iran |
WS 2010 / 2011 |
The History of Iranian Art |
WS 2010 / 2011 |
Arts of the Islamic World |
SS 2010 |
The History of Iranian Art |
SS 2010 |
Pre-Islamic Art in Iran |
WS 2009 / 2010 |
The History of Iranian Art |
WS 2009 / 2010 |
Arts of the Islamic World |
WS 2009 / 2010 |
New Persian |
WS 2006 / 2007 |
The Art of the Shahnameh |