Welcome to a new postdoc!

 

Mojgan Osmani received her PhD from Tarbiat Modares University in 2019. Her doctoral dissertation is entitled ‘The Study of Phases in the Structure of Kurdish Sentences’. Her primary areas of research interest are case and agreement systems, in particular ergativity. Dr. Osmani has just started working as a University of Toronto Mississauga Postdoctoral Fellow in Humanities under the supervision of Professor Arsalan Kahnemuyipour. She is based in the Department of Language Studies at UTM, but also spends time at the Department of Linguistics, UTSG. Her postdoctoral work is focused on the syntax of clitics in Iranian languages, especially central Kurdish (Sanandaji). Her research dataset has recently been expanded to include additional Iranian languages. The variation found in the distribution of clitics in Iranian languages, despite lots of syntactic similarities otherwise, makes them a perfect test case for a microparametric study. Dr. Osmani has also joined the Syntax of Nominal Linkers project (PI: Arsalan Kahnemuyipour).

Welcome Party 2023

Linguists gathered again at the Madison Avenue Pub to celebrate the start of a new school year and the end of the first week. Lots to talk about after the Campus Kick-off Research Fair.

Ewen and Samuel discuss and enjoy the sun.

 

MA Forum gets their discussions going, too. Calvin, Will R. and Louie face the camera.

 

Naomi and Keir try out speechifying as the incoming Department Chair and Grad Chair.

 

Guest speaker Thomas Kettig, York U Sociolinguist, shares some of his Hawaiian style, after a great lecture about Hawaiian sociophonetics.

 

Members of the LVC group gather for a photo (L to R):

Laura, Thomas, Justin, Michaël, Siyi, Derek, Naomi, Kaleigh, Pocholo, Nick

 

Incoming grad chair Keir and outgoing grad chair Arsalan and the  take a moment to relax and enjoy the party.

Suzi, Pedro and Samuel A. advertise great beer for us.

 

Youp enjoys pub fair.