Presentations

Presentations in linguistic conferences

Jan 2025 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Object indexing in Hewramî: a corpus study, Paper presented at Tenth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL 10), University of Tuscia, 13-15 January 2025.
Dec 2024 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Differential A indexing in Hewramî: a corpus study. Paper presented at LACIM 2024 international conference (European research network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area), at Inalco.
Nov 2024 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Ergavtive case marking in Hewramî: a corpus study. Paper presented at Workshop on ergativity and information structure, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 21st to 22nd November 2024.
Sept 2023 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Remarks on the category of copula in Gorani dialects. Paper presented at 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL 26), University of Heidelberg.
Sept 2023 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Complex predicates in Hawrami. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL6) at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Nov 2022 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Body-Part Loans in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects. Paper presented at the 2022 conference of the European research network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area (LACIM) at Inalco.
Sept 2022 Mohammadirad, Masoud. The Gorani substrate in Southern Central Kurdish dialects. Paper presented at the "Minorities in the Zagros - Language & Identity'' workshop at the Goethe University Fankfurt.
Jun 2022 Mohammadirad, Masoud and Geoffrey Khan. The definite marker –ake in the Trans-Zab North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic; its origin and convergence with Iranian. Paper presented at the workshop on definiteness in Iranian languages at Uppsala university.
Jun 2022 Haig, Geoffrey, Maryam Nourzaei, and Masoud Mohammadirad. Definiteness marking in Kurdish and Balochi: parallels and divergences. Paper presented at the workshop on definiteness in Iranian languages at Uppsala university.
Sep 2021 Mohammadirad, Masoud. External possession in Laki. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL5) at the University of Graz.
Sep 2019 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Post-predicate bound oblique arguments across Kurdish. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL4) at the University of Rouen.
Sep 2019 Haig, Geoffrey, and Masoud Mohammadirad. Definiteness in Central Kurdish:sources and outcomes. Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL4) at the University of Rouen.
Aug 2019 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Existential predicative possession: a subtype of non-canonical constructions in Western Iranian languages. Presented at 52nd annual meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE2019) at the University of Leipzig.
Apr 2019 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Procliticization mechanism in Western Iranian languages: its extent and development. Presented at the second North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL2). University of Arizona.
March 2017 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Pronominal clitics in Southern Central Kurdish varieties. Paper presented at the workshop on Language contact in west Asia, at the Goethe University Fankfurt.
Jun 2015 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Instrumental semantic map in some Iranian languages. Sixth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics. Tbilisi, Georgia.

Invited talks

Sep 2022 Mohammadirad, Masoud (Sept. 2022). The Gorani substrate in Southern Central Kurdish dialects. Paper presented at the “Minorities in the Zagros - Language Identity” workshop at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Jun 2022 Haig, Geoffrey, Maryam Nourzaei, and Masoud Mohammadirad (June 2022). Definiteness marking in Kurdish and Balochi: parallels and divergences, Paper presented at the workshop on definiteness in Iranian languages at Uppsala university.
Jun 2022 Mohammadirad, Masoud and Geoffrey Khan. The definite marker –ake in the Trans-Zab North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic; its origin and convergence with Iranian, Paper presented at the workshop on definiteness in Iranian languages at Uppsala university.
Mar 2017 Mohammadirad, Masoud. Pronominal clitics in Southern Central Kurdish varieties, Paper presented at the workshop on definiteness in Iranian languages at the Goethe University Fankfurt.

Posters

Sep 2021 Mohammadirad, Masoud. The development of person indexing in western Iranian languages. Presented at the 13th Conference of the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT 13), University of Pavia.