Annahita Farudi

Department of Linguistics
University of Massachusetts
South College
150 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003
afarudi at linguist.umass.edu

Research interests

I am a fourth year graduate student in the linguistics department at UMass, Amherst. My interestes are in syntax, semantics, and morphology, and their interfaces. I am also interested in---the formal analysis as well as the empirical description of---the Iranian languages, and much of my work so far has drawn data from Modern Farsi (Persian).

My curriculum vitae may be viewed here here in html, or downloaded here in pdf.

Current projects

The syntax of finite clausal subjects and complements, particularly in non-rigid head final languages; complex predicates; modality, and its interactions with lexical and veiewpoint aspect, and with tense; (in)definiteness and specificity in Persian. Recently, in collaboration with Amy Rose Deal, I have begun an investigation of the semantics of the Persian indefinite morpheme -i.

During the Fall semester (2007) I was an RA for Peggy Speas on the NSF-supported Evidentials Grant #BCS-0527509

Ongoing field and informant work

Dari (also known as Zartoshti, Gabri), Northwestern Iranian (the Dari Language Project is a research organization I cofounded (with Maziar Toosarvandani) to help support this research); Shughni (Pamir).

Teaching

Fall 2008	Instructor, Ling 201, Introduction to Linguistics
Spring 2008	Instructor, Ling 201, Introduction to Linguistics
Spring 2007	T.A., Ling 201, Introduction to Linguistics, Professor Chris Potts
Fall 2006	T.A., Ling 101, People and their Langauge, Professor John McCarthy

Links

Links related to the UMass department, linguistics departments in which I have studied previously, and my favorite nonlinguistic discipline.

Manuscripts

2007. An antisymmetric approach to Persian clausal complements. [UMass syntax generals paper 1]
The clause-final position of clausal complements in Persian raises challenges for existing views of the language as underlyingly verb final. I show that these problems are avoided, and several additional facts derived, if the language is analysed instead as being underlyingly head initial, within an antisymmetric framework of the type originally developed in Kayne (1994).

2005. Persian complex predicates: towards a nonderivational approach.
Oxford MPhil thesis.