Publications and talks

The merge position of internal arguments in Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Yadgar Karimi. Journal of Researches in Linguistics 11(2): 215–230.

Ten modules in Linguistics: A Modular Introduction

Saman Meihami. In Andrew Carnie (ed.), Linguistics: A Modular Introduction. University of Arizona Pressbooks. Open textbook.

Language acquisition

• ACQSM1Acquisition vs. Learning
• ACQSM2Stages of Acquisition
• ACQSM3Phonological Acquisition
• ACQSM4Word Acquisition (Lexical Development)
• ACQSM5Syntactic Acquisition
• ACQSM6The Innateness Hypothesis
• ACQSM7Sign Language Acquisition

Human language technology

• HLTSM1The Foundations of Human Language Technology
• HLTSM2The History of Human Language Technology
• HLTSM3Semantics and AI Vector Space

Stative passives in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55).

Verbalizers in Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. In Advances in Iranian Linguistics III. In press.

Morpheme-based embeddings for low-resource, morphologically complex languages: A case study on Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami.

Clitic stacking in Ardalani Kurdish

Simin Karimi and Saman Meihami.

Phonological phrasing affects vocabulary insertion: Evidence from the Persian copula

Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh and Saman Meihami.

The argument structure of event nominals in Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Heidi Harley.

Clitic stacking in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Simin Karimi. Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, University of Arizona.

Stative passives and argument structure

Saman Meihami. Workshop on Voice, organized by Heidi Harley, University of Arizona.

Causative constructions in Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran.

Split ergativity and dependent case in Ardalani Kurdish and Balochi

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. Lectures on Iranian Linguistics in Arizona (LILA), University of Arizona.

Split ergativity in Balochi

Saman Meihami. Department of Linguistics, Alzahra University, Tehran.

The Final-over-Final Constraint in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran.

Derived ergativity in Central Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. 18th Arizona Linguistics Circle (ALC 18), University of Arizona.

Tense and alignment in Akoi Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Nian Barzanji. 4th North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 4), University of Toronto.

Phonological phrasing affects vocabulary insertion: Evidence from the Persian copula

Mohsen Mahdavi Mazdeh and Saman Meihami. 4th North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 4), University of Toronto.

Stative passives in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. 10th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL 10), University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy.

Stative passives in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), Philadelphia.

Stative passives in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. 55th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society (NELS 55), Yale University.

Ezafe in complex predicates in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL 6), Goethe University Frankfurt.

Clitic stacking in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami and Simin Karimi. 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL 6), Goethe University Frankfurt.

Issues with case and agreement in Balochi

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. 3rd North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 3), UCLA.

Complex predicates in Sorani Kurdish and the Final-over-Final Constraint

Saman Meihami. 4th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL 4), University of Rouen Normandy, France.

Argument structure in Kurdish VPs

Saman Meihami and Yadgar Karimi. 2nd International Conference on Language and Literature of Kurdish and Persian, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj.

Derived ergativity in Central Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New Orleans.

Case and agreement in nominalized clauses in Sorani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), New York.

Verbalization in Ardalani Kurdish

Saman Meihami. 3rd North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL 3), UCLA.

Dependent case and split ergativity in Balochi

Saman Meihami and Alexander Hamo. CreteLing, Crete Summer School of Linguistics, Greece.