Publications

Books

• Karimi, Simin; Vida Samiian, Wendy Wilkins, eds. (2007) Clausal and phrasal architecture: syntactic derivation and interpretation. John Benjamins.
• Karimi, Simin (2005) A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling: Evidence from Persian, Mouton de Gruyter
• Karimi, Simin, ed. (2003) Word Order and Scrambling, Blackwell Publishers

Papers

• Karimi, Simin 'Raising and control constructions in Persian,' to appear in Karimi, Simin; Vida Samiian, Don Stilo (eds) Aspects of Iranian Linguistics. Cambridge' Scholars Publishers Ltd.
• Karimi, Simin & Azita Taleghani (2007) 'Wh-movement, interpretation, and optionality in Persian, In Karimi, S., V. Samiian, W. Wilkins (eds) . Clausal and phrasal architecture: syntactic derivation and interpretation. John Benjamins.
• Folli, Raffaella; Heidi Harley, Simin Karimi (2005) 'Determinants of event type in Persian complex predicates,' Lingua 115: 1365-1401.
• Karimi, Simin (2005) 'Farsi,' in The Fitzroy Dearborn Encyclopedia of Linguistics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn.
• Karimi, Simin (2003a) 'Focus movement and uninterpretable features,' in A. Carnie, H. Harley, and M. Willie (eds) Formal Approaches to Functional Forces. Festschrift for Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamin Publishers. PP 297-306.
• Karimi, Simin (2003b) 'Object positions, specificity and scrambling,' in Karimi, S. (ed) Word Order and Scrambling, Blackwell Publishers. PP 91-125.
• Karimi, Simin (2001) 'Persian complex DPs: how mysterious are they?' Canadian Journal of Linguistics 46: 63-96
• Karimi, Simin (1999a) 'A Note on parasitic gaps and specificity,' Linguistic Inquiry 30: 704-713.
• Karimi, Simin (1999b) Specificity Effect: Evidence from Persian,' Linguistic Review 16: 125-141.
• Karimi, Simin (1999c) 'Is scrambling as strange as we think it is?,' MIT Linguistics Working Papers (MITLWP). PP 159-190.
• Karimi, Simin (1997a) 'From Deep-Structure to Logical Form and the Minimalist Program,' The Iranian Journal of Linguistics, Vol 11, Nr.2: 5-53 (A Persian translation of this article appeared in The Iranian Journal of Linguistics, Vol 11, Nr.3.)
• Karimi, Simin (1997b) 'Persian complex verbs: Idiomatic or Compositional?' Lexicology 3.1:273-318
• Karimi, Simin (1997c) 'Persian complex predicates and LF incorporation,' in the Proceedings of Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) 33: 215-229
• Karimi, Simin & Anne Lobeck (1997) 'Specificity Effects in English and Persian,' Proceedings of North East Linguistics Conference (NELS) 28: 175-186
• Karimi, Simin (1996) 'Case and specificity: Persian r' revisited,' Linguistic Analysis: 26:3-4: 174-194
• Mohammad, Jan & Simin Karimi (1992) 'Light verbs are taking Over: complex verbs in Persian,' Proceedings of The Western Conference on Linguistic (WECOL). PP 195-212
• Karimi, Simin (1990) 'Obliqueness, Specificity, and Discourse Functions: r' in Persian,' Linguistic Analysis, Vol. 3&4: 139-191

Book Contracts

• Lewis, Will, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, Scott Farrar (eds) ) Language: Theory and Practice: Papers in Honor of D. Terence Langendoen, John Benjamins.
• Karimi, Simin; Vida Samiian, Don Stilo (eds) Aspects of Iranian Linguistics. Cambridge Scholars Publishers Ltd.

Work In Progress

Grants

• Karimi, Simin Complex predicates in Iranian languages

Papers

• Karimi, Simin A phase-based approach to arbitrary control.
• Karimi, Simin 'Obligatory control'
• Karimi, Simin and Andrew Barss 'Sluicing in Persian'.
• Karimi, Simin, Sumayya Racy, Yosuke Sato, and Azita Taleghani 'Modals crosslinguistically.'
• Karimi, Simin Scrambling, to appear in Language and Linguistics Compass.