1- Research interests:  

a- Linguistic theories

b- Typology

c- Semantics

d- Interplay between syntax and discourse

e- Cognitive Linguistics

 

2- Journal papers:  

a- "First Language acquisition". Journal of humanities, T.M.U.1994.

b- "Interdisciplinary studies". Journal of SAMT publication 1998.

c- "Typology and universals, different approaches". Journal of humanities, Tehran university 2000.

d- "Syntactic mechanisms and their pragmatics". Journal of humanities Tehran University 2003.

e- "Metaphor; a Cognitive approach". to be published in journal of humanities, Isfahan university.

f- "Second Language acquisition's Linguistic perspective". Journal of humanities, Tehran university 2001.

 

3- Papers presented in Congresses: 

a- "A cognitive approach to grammaticalization and iconicity", Allame tabatabaee university-5th Linguistics conference 2000.

b- "Linguistic categorization". Ministry of foreign affairs, Institute of cognitive sciences-2nd international conference 2003.

 

4- Dissertations and theses supervised: 

a) masters theses:

- A study of compound and derived nouns in AZARI Turkish. SH. Mohammadenejad 2001.

- A morphological and fonological study of verbs in SHAHAVI dialect. B. Mojibi 1999.

- Textual fitures in SHAMLOO, s poetry. Z. Mozaffari 2002.

- Function of persian agentive passive. S. M. Hosseini 2001.

- A Critical analysis of interference of Persian native speakers mother language in learning English passive. SH. Arabzade 2000.

- Time metaphor in Persian; A cognitive perspective. F. Yoosefi 2003.

b)doctoral dissertations

- The structure of verb phrase in Persian with particular reference to VP internal hypothesis. A. Alizade 2002.

- A study of religious texts from a discoursal view point. GH. Noudehi 2002.

 

5- Books: 

a- An introuduction to psycholinguistics (trans. to Farsi). SAMT publishing house 2002.

b- Language change (trans. to Farsi). Tehran university press 2003.

c- Persian grammar. SAMT publishing house 2003

 

6- Courses taught: 

a- B.A. Level

- introduction to linguistics

- morphology

- contrastive analysis

- persian grammar

- English grammar

b- Masters level

- modern schools of linguistics

- semantics

- principles of grammar

- transformational grammar

- psycholinguistics

c- Doctoral level

- typology

- semantics

- psycholinguistics