Jila Ghomeshi
Associate
Professor
Linguistics
Department
University
of Manitoba
Winnipeg,
MB R3T 5V5
CANADA
(204)
474-9288
Research Interests
I am a syntactician and am particularly interested in the
interface between syntax and morphology on the one hand and syntax and
pragmatics on the other. I work on Persian* and my research has involved
looking at the syntax of noun phrases, the Ezafe
construction, the direct object marker (-ra), and control constructions. I have also worked on the
syntax of reduplication and have collaborated with Diane Massam
on the syntax of proper names. My recent
publications include a book on Determiners that I
co-edited with Ileana Paul and Martina Wiltschko, and a slim book on prescriptivism that is
addressed to a general audience and that can be found here.
*Persian is also known as Farsi. Debates about
which to use as the name of the language can be found here.
Courses
During the academic year 2012-13 I am teaching Ling 1200 Introduction to Linguistics in both
terms. I am also teaching Ling
3120 Syntactic
Theory and Ling 1420 Language and Gender in the first term, and Ling 3820 Nominalization in
Syntax in the second term.
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