Simin Karimi
Curriculum
Vitae
Contact Information
Work
Home Address
Department of Linguistics
4750 N. Scenic Mountain Dr.
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85750
Communication 106
(520) 955-2593
Tucson, AZ 85721
(520) 621-5399 (Office)
karimi@email.arizona.edu
(520) 621-68697 (Department)
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~karimi/
(520) 626-9014
Chronology of Education
Doctor of Philosophy
Department of Linguistics, The
University of Washington, April 1989
Dissertation Title: Aspects of Persian Syntax, Specificty, and the
Theory of
Grammar Dissertation Advisor: Professor Joe Emonds
Major Fields
Theoretical Syntax, Syntax-morphology
interface, Syntax-semantics interface, Syntax of Iranian languages
Chronology of Employment
July 2011-Present Head, Department of
Linguistics, University of Arizona.
April 2008-Present Professor of Linguistics, Dept.
of Linguistics, The University of Arizona (UA).
January-July 2007 Interim Head, Dept. of
Linguistics, The University of Arizona.
July 2001-April 2008 Associate Professor of Linguistics, Dept. of
Linguistics, UA.
1998-2001
Associate Professor of Linguistics, Dept. of
Linguistics, and Associate Professor
of Persian
Language and Linguistics, Dept. of Near Eastern Studies, UA.
1993-1998
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Linguistics
and Near Eastern Studies, UA.
1990-1993
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Near Eastern
Studies, UA.
1991-present
Member, Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT)
Program, UA.
1993-present
Member, Cognitive Science Program, UA.
1989-1990
Lecturer, Linguistics Program, Department of
English, California State
University at Dominguez Hills.
Grants, Scholarships & Awards
PI, NSF Grant: A Descriptive and Theoretical
Analysis of Complex Predicates in Iranian
Languages. Co-PIs: Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley. July 1, 2015-December 31,
2018
($278,764)
SBS Excellence Award in Graduate Teaching,
University of Arizona, 2011
Travel Grant, International Program, University of Arizona, 2007
Travel Grant, International Program, University of Arizona, 2005
Conference Grand, Roshan Institute, $23,600
(with Don Stilo, Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Anthropology, and Vida Samiian, CSU Fresno), 2005
Visiting Scholarship, Department of Linguistics, Cambridge University,
United
Kingdom, Fall 2004
Research Professorship Grant, University of Arizona, 2003
Travel Grant, International Program, University of Arizona, 2002
Travel Grant, International Program, University of Arizona, 2001
Visiting Scholar, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology (MIT), Spring 1999
Travel Grant, International Program, University of Arizona, 1998
Research Professorship Grant, University of Arizona, 1994
SBS Mini Grant, University of Arizona, 1994
Travel Grant, International Program, University of Arizona, 1993
Service and Outreach
Local/State Outreach and Service
Organizer of a Linguistics lecture by Noam
Chomsky, March 16, 2015.
Lecture: 'Distinct languages, similar patterns. What do they tell us?',
Osher Lifetime
Learning Institute (OLLI), December 8, 2014.
Organized a lecture series for the Osher
Lifetime Learning Institute, Fall 2012
Lecture: 'The languages of our so-called enemies: Iranian languages.",
OLLI, October 8, 2012
Co-organizer of Noam Chomsky's visit and lectures, February 7 & 8,
2011
Invited lecture on "A view from Iran," Foothills Forum, Tucson, Arizona,
February 2005
Invited lecture on Iranian Culture, IBM, Tucson, Arizona, December 2003
Invited lecture on Iran and Iranian Women, Trinity Presbyterian Church,
Tucson, Arizona, 2002
Co-organizer, Linguistics Showcase,
University of Arizona, 2002
Elected President, Iranian Association of Arizona, 1999-2001
Invited lecture on the status of women in Iran, Women's Day, La Paloma,
Phoenix, Arizona, 1997
Elected Vice President of the Board of
Trustees, Iranian Association of Arizona, 1997
Invited lecture on Bilingualism to the Iranian Community, Phoenix,
Arizona, 1995
Invited lecture on Persian Script to high school teachers, Center for
Middle
Eastern Studies (CMES), University of
Arizona, 1995
Invited lecture on The History of Iranian
Languages, Iranian Community,
Phoenix, Arizona, 1994
Invited lecture on the social and political
status of women in Iran, University of Texas at
Austin, 1992
Contributions to the Iranian Newsletter in
Tucson, 1990-2001
Invited lecture on women in Iran to the WOSAC, Tucson, Arizona, 1991
Two lectures on Persian Culture, Tucson Unified School District, 1990
National & International Outreach & Service
Co-organizer for the Fourth International
Conference on Aspects of Iranian Linguistics,
Upsala University, Sweden, June 2011.
Organizing Committee for the West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics
(WCCFL),
April 2011.
Co-organizer of the Third International Conference on Aspects of Iranian
Linguistics,
Universite Sorbonne Nouvell, Paris III,
France, September 2009.
Co-organizer of the International Conference on Complex Predicates in
Iranian
Languages, Universite Sorbonne Nouvell,
Paris III, France, July 2008.
Co-organizer of the Second International Conference on Aspects of Iranian
Linguistics,
Hamburg University, Hamburg, Germany,
August 2007.
Invited Chair, panel on 'Presupposition,' Linguistic Society of America
(LSA),
New Mexico, January 2006.
Co-organizer of the First International Conference on Aspects of Iranian
Linguistics, The
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, June
2005.
Book-Review Co-editor, LinguistList, 2001-2003 (17000 subscribers world
wide).
Organizer of the international meeting of Western Conference on
Linguistics
(WECOL), 2003.
Chair and Discussant, Panel on Linguistics, Iranian Studies, Maryland,
2002.
Co-organizer, workshop on Modern Trends in Linguistics, Allameh
University,
Tehran, Iran, 2001.
Invited Chair, Panel on Iranian Linguistics, LSA, Chicago, 2000.
Organizer, Sociolinguistics Workshop (co-sponsored by the Center for
Middle Eastern
Studies, Department of Linguistics, and
Department of Anthropology), 2000.
Organizer, one week long lectures by Howard Lasnik (University of
Connecticut), 1999.
Organizer of a memorial panel at the annual meeting of the Middle East
studies
Association (MESA) in honor of the life
and contributions of Professor Ahmad
Tafazzoli, internationally renowned scholar of Ancient Iranian
Linguistics, 1997.
Several talks to the Iranian Communities in Oregon, Washington, and Texas,
1994-1997.
Invited organizer of a panel on Iranian Linguistics, Society of Iranian
Studies,
Washington D.C., 1993.
Invited discussant on a language/linguistics
panel, Middle East Studies Association
(MESA), Washington D.C., 1993.
Chair, panel on Formal Syntax, Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Tucson,
Arizona, 1992.
Chair, panel on Iranian Linguistics, Middle East Studies Association
(MESA), 1992.
Chair, panel on Applied Linguistics, Center for Iranian Research
Association
(CIRA), 1992.
Chair, panel on Sociolinguistics, Middle East Studies Association (MESA),
1991.
Editorial Board
(1994-present)
Linguistic Analysis
(2012-Present) International
Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature
(2008-2013)
Lingua
Anonymous reviewer for:
Journals
Linguistic
Inquiry, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Language,
Journal of
Linguistics, Linguistics Analysis, Lingua, SYNTAX, Canadian
Journal of Linguistics, Language and
Linguistics, Journal of Australian
Linguistics, Language Learning and
Development, Anthropological
Linguistics, Studia Linguistica, Folia
Linguistica, Language Research,
Slavic Linguistics, AZ Cognitive
Linguistics, Journal of Semantics,
Journal of Pragmatics, SKY Journal of
Linguistics, Journal of Language
Research, Journal of Language Science,
International Journal of Slavic,
Linguistics, Folia Linguistics, Language
Modeling, Diachronica,
Comparative Germanic Linguistics,
International Journal of Middle East
Studies (IJMES).
Grant Proposals
National Science
Foundation (NSF), Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC)
Conference Abstracts West Coast Conference on
Formal Linguistics (WCCFL), Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL), Formal Approaches to Japanese
Linguistics (FAJL),
Southwest Journal of Linguistics (SWJL), Eastern
States Conference on
Linguistics (ESCOL), Linguistic Society of
America (LSA), Generative
Linguistics in the Old World (GLOW),
Linguistics Society of
America (LSA).
Publishers
Oxford University Press,
Blackwell Publishers, Benjamin Publishers,
Mouton de Gruyter, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Reichert Publishers.
Media
Television Interview of Language and Linguistics,
Portland, Oregon,
1996
Radio Interview on
Persian Studies in the States, Voice of America, 1994
Radio Interview on Women
in Iran, NPR, Austin, Texas, 1992
Radio interview on
Bilingualism and the Linguistic Problems of Iranian
Children and Teenagers in
the States, Portland, Oregon, 1990
Departmental/Program Committees & Service
Linguistics
Head, July 2011-
(on sabbatical in 2013-2014).
Chair, Outreach Committee, 2011-
Director of the Graduate Program, Fall 2003-July
2011
Self Review Committee for Academic Program Review (APR), 2008
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee
for Andrew Carnie, 2008
Interim head, Spring 2007
Chair, Courtesy Appointments, 2001-2006
P&T Committee (Tenure review for Natasha Warner and third year review
for
Andy Wedel), 2005.
Admissions Committee, 2003-2011
Curriculum Committee, 2003-2011
Tenure Committee for Andrew Carnie, 2003
Peer Evaluation Committee, 1997, 2001-2003
Fourth Year Review Committee for Heidi Harley, 2002
Human Subject Committee, 2002-2003
Fourth Year Review Committee for Andrew Carnie, 2001
Chair, Brochure Committee, 2000, 2001
Chair, Self Review Committee for Academic
Program Review (APR), 2000-2001
Language Testing, 2000-Present
Chair, Second Year Review Committee for Andrew
Carnie, 1999
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1997
Adjunct Search Committee, 1996
Syntax Search Committee, 1996
Near Eastern Department (NES)
Third Year Review Committee for Samire
Farwaneh, 2005
Tenure Committee for Kamran Talattof, 2001
Chair, Peer Evaluation Committee, 2000
Search Committee for Arabic Linguist, 2000
Language Committee, 1999-2001
Graduate Curriculum Committee, 1998, 2000
Chair, Persian Literature Search Committee,
1998
Peer Evaluation Committee, 1998
1990-1998:
Persian Literature Search, Head-Search, Language, Grievings, Persian
Program
Evaluation, Curriculum/Staffing, Admissions/Financial Aid, United Way.
Second Language Acquisition and
Teaching (SLAT)
Executive Council, 1999-2004
Chair, L2 Analysis, 2003-2004
Admissions Committee, 2003
Chair, L2 Analysis Committee, 1999-2000
L2 Analysis Committee, 1993-2000
Center for Middle East Studies (CMES)
Board of Directors, 1999-2002
Persian Lecture Series Committee, 1999-2000
Middle Eastern Film Committee, 1999
Library Committee, 1999
Junior Faculty Mentorship
Adam Ussishkin
Linguistics
Samira Farwaneh NES
College Committees & Service
Chair, Head
Search, Department of American Indian Studies, College of Social
and Behavioral Studies, 2014-15.
Chair, Head Search, Department of East Asian
Studies, College of Humanities,
2012-13.
Member, SBS Graduate Council, Spring 2010-2011.
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2010-11.
New Faculty Advisor, 2009-10.
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2008-2010
Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, College of
Social and Behavioral Sciences,
2004
Faculty Advisory Committee, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
2002-
2003
Novice Mentor Committee, 2001-2002
Language and Linguistics for Teachers (K12), 1998
Chair, Search Committee for Acting Director,
Center for Middle East Studies,
1994
University Committees & Service
Member: Promotion and Tenure Committee,
2012-13
Member: Code of Academic Integrity (University of Hearing Board), Fall
2009-2011
Member, Graduate College Representative Committee, 1998-2002
Chair, Grade Appeal Committee for the Office of
the Associate Dean for the
Undergraduate Education, 1994
Member, Faculty-Honor Student Program, 1992
Member, General Education Workshop, 1991
Publications
Scholarly Books/Journals
Karimi, Simin, Guest Editor of a special issue on Complex Predicates
for the Journal Lingua 2013.
Korn, Agnes, Geoffrey Haig, Simin Karimi, Pollett Samvelian (2011) Issues
in Iranian
Linguistics, Reichert Publishers,
Germany.
Lewis, Will, Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley, Scott Farrar (eds) (2009) Time
and Again:
Theoretical Perspectives and Formal
Linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing.
Karimi, Simin; Vida Samiian, Don Stilo (eds) (2008) Aspects of Iranian
Linguistics.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Karimi, Simin (2005) A Minimalist Approach to Scrambling: Evidence from
Persian, Mouton
de Gruyter.
Karimi, Simin, ed. (2003) Word Order and Scrambling, Blackwell
Publishing.
Karimi, Simin, ed. (1995) Language and Gender, The journal of Nimeye
Digar.
Book Contracts
Barss, Andrew, Andrew Carnie, Heidi Harley, and Simin Karimi (contracted). Introduction
to
Minimalist Syntax. Oxford:
Blackwell (contracted publication). (textbook)
Book Chapters
Original Research
Karimi, S. 'Raising and control in Persian,' (2008) In Aspects of
Iranian Linguistics,
S. Karimi, V. Samiian, and D. Stilo (eds).
Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
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. PP 167-187.
John
Benjamins Publishing.
Karimi, Simin (2003a) 'Focus Movement and Uninterpretable Features,' in A.
Carnie, H. Harley,
and M. Willie (eds) Formal Approaches
to Function in Grammar. Festschrift for
Eloise Jelinek, John Benjamins Publishing. PP 297-106 Solicited.
Karimi, Simin (2003b) 'Introduction,' in Karimi, S. (ed) Word Order and
Scrambling,
Blackwell Publishing. PP xii-xx.
Karimi, Simin (2003c) 'Object Positions, Specificity and Scrambling,' in
Karimi, S. (ed)
Word Order and Scrambling,
Blackwell Publishing. PP 91-125.
Karimi, Simin (1994) 'Word Order Variations in Modern Contemporary Persian,'
Marashi, M. (ed.) Persian Studies in
North America: A Festschrift for
Professor M.A. Jazayery, Iranbooks. PP 43-73 Solicited.
Karimi, Simin (1987) 'Farsi Speakers and the
Initial Consonant Cluster in English,' in
Ioup, G. and S.H. Weinberger, eds, Interlangauge
Phonology: The Acquisition
of a Second Language Sound System. Newbury House. PP 305-318 Solicited.
Encyclopedia
Karimi, Simin (2005) 'Farsi,' in The Fitzroy Dearborn Encyclopedia of
Linguistics,
Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Solicited.
Refereed Journal Articles
Refereed Research Articles
Karimi, Simin and MIchael Brame (2012) 'A Generalization Concerning the
EZAFE
Construction in Persian.' Linguistic
Analysis 39:11-143.
Karimi, Simin (2008) 'Scrambling,' Language and Linguistics Compass (solicited).
Folli, Raffaella; Heidi Harley, Simin Karimi (2005) 'Determinants of event
type in Persian
complex predicates,' Lingua 115:
1365-1401.
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 (1997a) 'From Deep-Structure to Logical Form and the
Minimalist Program,'
The Iranian Journal of Linguistics,
Vol 11, Nr.2: 5-53.
Karimi, Simin (1997b) 'Persian Complex Verbs: Idiomatic or Compositional?' Lexicology
3.1:273-318.
Karimi, Simin (1996) 'Case and Specificity: Persian Râ Revisited,' Linguistic
Analysis:
26:3-4: 174-194.
Karimi, Simin (1995) 'Introduction,' an introductory article for the special
volume on
Language and Gender, Journal of Nimeye
Digar (The Other Half), No.2: 3-24
Solicited (The Persian translation of
'Introduction' appeared in the Journal of Nimeye Digar,
No.2: 6-30).
Karimi, Simin (1992) Zabân va Sabk dar Asâr-e Hedayat, (Language and Style
in Hedayat's
Writings,) Iran
Name Vol 10, No 3: 505-524.
Karimi, Simin (1990) 'Obliqueness, Specifity, and Discourse Functions: râ in
Persian,'
Linguistic Analysis, Vol 3&4:
139-191.
Karimi, Simin (1987) 'Degargunihâ-ye Novin dar Dartur-e Zâyeshi-Gashtâri'
(New
Developments within
Generative-Transformational Grammar), The Iranian
Journal of Linguistics, Vol 1&2: 2-25.
Review Articles
Karimi, Simin (2009) Review of Gema Chocano's Narrow Syntax and
Phonological Form.
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, in
Language.
Karimi, Simin (1994) Review of John Perry's Form and Meaning in Persian
Vocabulary: The
Arabic
Feminine Ending, in the International Journal of
Middle East Studies, Vol 26,
No 3: 531-533.
Karimi, Simin (1992) 'Naghdi bar Majalle-ye Zabânshenâsi,' (Review of The
Iranian Journal of
Linguistics:
1980-1990), Iran Name Vol 10, No 4: 723-746.
Karimi, Simin (1991) Review of M. Dabir-Moghaddam's 'About Râ in Persian,'
in The Iranian
Journal of
Linguistics, Vol 8, No 1: 23-41.
Other Publications
Conference Proceedings
Karimi, Simin (1997) '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.
Mohammad, Jan & Simin Karimi (1992) 'Light Verbs Are Taking Over:
Complex Verbs in
Persian,' Proceedings of The Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL). PP 195-212.
Working Papers
Folli,
Raffaella, Heidi Harley, Simin Karimi (2003) 'Determinants of event type in
Persian
complex predicates,' Cambridge Working
Papers in Linguistics.
Karimi, Simin (1999) 'Is scrambling as strange as we thing it is?' MIT
Linguistics
Working
Papers (MITLWP). PP 159-190.
Karimi, Simin (1987) 'Compound Verbs in Persian,' Linguistics Working
Papers, University of
Washington. PP 11-25.
Book Notice
Karimi, Simin (1986) Book Notice on Social Order in Child Communication,
by J. Streeck,
Language, Vol 62, No. 2, PP
479-480.
Work in Progress
Book Proposal
Karimi, Simin
Complex Predicates in
Iranian Languages, to be submitted to
Oxford University Press.
Papers
Invited: Karimi, S. 'Persian Syntax.' To appear in Anousha Sedighi and
Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi
(eds) Handbook of Iranian Linguistics,
Oxford University Press.
Karimi, S. 'Marked and Unmarked Object: DP or NP?' Paper to be presented
at the Societas
Linguistica Europaea, 2-5 September
2015, Leiden, Netherlands.
Karimi, S, Greg Key and Deniz Tat 'Contrast in Focus: Persian and
Turkish focus
constructions,' under review.
Karimi, S, Ryan Smith 'The mystery of Persian -râ.' Submitted to a
journal.
Sato, Yosuke and Simin Karimi 'Argument Ellipsis in Persian and
Inhibitiory ɸ-Agreement.'
Under review.
Karimi, S. and Y. Sato 'Arbitrary Control.' In progress.
Karimi, S. and Azita Taleghani 'Does passive exist in Persian?' In
progress.
Karimi, S. and J. Punske 'DP versus NP and Scrambling: A reply to
Boskovic,' to be submitted
to a journal.
Grants
Karimi, Simin NSF Conference Proposal on Complex Predicates (to be
submitted in January
2016)
Invited Guest Editor
Karimi, Simin and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini.
Parameters: What are
they? Where are they?
For the journal Linguistic Analysis.
Expected publication: Fall 2016.
Scholarly Presentations
Invited National and International
Talks
'Complex Predicates in focus,' Indiana
University, Keynote Speaker, 1st Central Asian
Linguistics conference. May 2014.
'Obligatory control in Persian,' Rice University, Fall 2006.
'Control Constructions in Persian and Irish and their implication
for Universal Grammar,'
University of Newcastle, England,
November 17, 2004.
'Typology of movement: a myth?,' Shoin University, Japan October 12,
2004.
'Scrambling and wh-constructions in Persian,' Kyoto University,
October 9, 2004.
'Subjectless Constructions in Persian,' Linguistics Conference, The
Academy of Language,
Tehran, Iran, 2004.
'Syntactic, Semantic, and Morphological Properties of Persian NPs,'
Linguistics Conference,
Esfahan, Iran, 2001.
'Scrambling as a Semantically Motivated Movement,' 4th Regional
Linguistics
Conference, Tehran, Iran, 1998.
'They are too Complex to be Compound Elements,' University of Texas
at Austin, 1997.
'On Object Positions,' University of Toronto, Canada, 1995.
'Persian Studies in the States,' The Iranian Academy of Sciences,
Tehran, Iran, 1994.
'New Trends in Syntactic Theory,' University of Shiraz, Shiraz,
Iran, 1994.
'From Deep-Structure to Logical Form,' University of Tehran, Tehran,
Iran, 1993.
'Iranian Women in Post-revolutionary Era,' University of Texas at
Austin, 1992.
'Language and style in Hedayat's Writings,' The University of Texas
at Austin, 1991.
Local Talks
'Focus and Optionality in Syntax,' Second Language Acquisition and
Teaching Program (SLAT)
University of Arizona, 2003.
'Are Persian Relative Clauses Mysterious?' Second Language
Acquisition and Teaching
Program (SLAT), University of
Arizona, 2002.
'Persian Word Order,' Second Language Acquisition and Teaching
Program (SLAT),
University of Arizona, 1993.
'Women in Iran: The Post Revolution Era,' Women Studies, University
of Arizona, 1991.
'The Image of Women in Hedayat's Writings,' University of Arizona,
1991.
'Impressions of a Journey to Iran: A Woman's Perspective,' Center
for Middle Eastern
Studies, University of Arizona,
1990.
Class Lectures
'Scrambling', Linguistics 503, Department of Linguistics, University
of Arizona, Dec. 2014.
'Minimalism and Scrambling', Master Seminar, Cognitive Science
Program, University of
Arizona, 2007.
'Scrambling', Linguistics 503, Department of Linguistics, University
of Arizona, 2006.
'Phase Theory', Master Seminar, Cognitive Science Program,
University of Arizona, 2005.
'Relative Clauses,' Linguistics 503, Department of Linguistics,
University of Arizona, 2002.
'Language Reform in Iran,' NES 330, Department of NES, University of
Arizona, 2001.
'Scrambling,' Linguistics 503, Department of Linguistics, University
of Arizona, 2000.
'On Optionality,' Master Seminar, Cognitive Science Program,
University of Arizona, 2000.
'Persian Language,' History Department, University of Arizona, 1998.
'Persian Syntax,' Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Program
(SLAT), University of
Arizona, 1992.
'Persian Literature,' Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES),
University of Arizona, 1992.
'Language and Politics,' Department of Political Science, University
of Arizona 1992.
'Iranian Linguistics,' Department of Near Eastern Studies (NES),
University of Arizona, 1992.
'Women in Iran,' Women Studies, University of Arizona, 1992.
Conference Presentations
Harvey, Mark, Simin Karimi, Greg Key, Deniz Tat (2011) 'How do you
like your verb: heavy,
light or semi-light?', Conference
Canberra Langfest, Australian Linguistics Society (ALS).
Karimi, Simin, Greg Key, Deniz Tat (2011) 'Complex Predicates in
Focus', WCCFL 29,
University of Arizona.
Karimi, Simin, Geg Key, Deniz Tat (2011) 'Complex Predicates in
Persian and Turkish,' 4th
International Conference on Iranian
Linguistics, Uppsala Sweden, June 2011.
Karimi, Simin (2008) 'Opening Remarks: scholarship on complex
predicates.' International
Conference on Complex Predicates,
Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III,
France.
Karimi, Simin (2007) 'Comparative analysis of complex predicates in
Persian and Kurdish,'
Second International Conference on
Iranian Linguistics, Hamburg University,
Germany.
Karimi, Simin (2005) 'Control Constructions in Persian,' First
International Conference on
Iranian Linguistics, The Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig/Germany, June 2005.
Karimi, Simin & Azita Taleghani (2003) 'Looking alike is not
being alike: a story of Persian
wh-arguments and adjuncts,' Western
Conference on Linguistics (WECOL),
Tucson, Arizona.
Karimi, Simin (2000) 'Many Faces of Scrambling: Evidence from
Persian,' International
Conference on Word Order and
Scrambling, Tucson, Arizona.
Karimi, Simin (1999) 'Scrambling, Subjacency, and the Minimal Link
Condition,' Linguistics
Society of America (LSA), Los
Angeles.
Karimi, Simin & Anne Lobeck (1997) 'Specificity Effects in
English and Persian,' North East
Linguistics Society (NELS), Toronto,
Canada.
Karimi, Simin (1992) 'Persian Complex Predicates and LF
Incorporation,' Chicago Linguistic
Society (CLS) 33, Chicago.
Karimi, Simin (1992) 'Syntactic Violations in Persian Poetry; the
Case of Hafez and
Farrokhzad,' Middle Eastern Studies
Association (MESA), Portland.
Mohammad, Jan & Simin Karimi (1992) 'Light Verbs Are Taking
over: Complex Verbs in
Persian,' Western Conference on
Linguistics (WECOL), Tucson.
Karimi, Simin (1989) 'Word Order and Incorporation,' Middle East
Studies Association
(MESA), Toronto.
Karimi, Simin (1988) 'Persian and Chinese Word Order: A Restrictive
ECP Interaction with a
Discourse Condition,' Linguistic
Society of America (LSA), New Orleans.
Karimi, Simin (1988) 'A Synchronic and Diachronic Analysis of râ,'
Middle East Studies
Association (MESA) Los Angeles.
Karimi, Simin & Michael Brame (1986) 'A Generalization
Concerning the EZAFE Construction
in Persian,' Western Conference of
Linguistics (WECOL), Vancouver, Canada.
Karimi, Simin (1985) 'Small Clauses in Persian,' Northwest
Linguistics Club, Seattle,
Washington.
Karimi, Simin (1985) 'Râ in Persian: Functional Duality?' Linguistic
Society of America (LSA),
Seattle, Washington.
Workshops
Folli, Raffaella, Heidi Harley, Simin Karimi (2002) 'Determinations
of Event Types in Persian
Complex Prediates,' Workshop on
Complex Predicates, Konstanz, Germany.
Karimi, Simin (2001) 'Word Order and Scrambling,' Modern Trends in
Linguistic, Allameh
University, Tehran, Iran.
Karimi, Simin (2001) 'Object Shift, Specificity, and Scrambling,'
Modern Trends in
Linguistics, Allameh University,
Tehran, Iran.
Karimi, Simin (1994) 'Second Language Acquistion and Teaching:
Modern Theories and
Models,' University of Washington.
Karimi, Simin (1991) Persian Proficiency Workshop, UCLA.
Karimi, Simin (1990) Persian Proficiency Workshop, Oregon.
Colloquia & Symposia
Karimi, Simin (1997) 'Binding and Scrambling,' Department of
Linguistics, UA.
Karimi, Simin (1992) 'Objects and Specificity in Persian,'
Department of Linguistics, UA.
Karimi, Simin (1992) 'Bilingualism: the Case of Iranian Students in
the States,' Sociolinguistic
Symposium, University of Arizona.
Foreign Language Competence
Persian (native), German (near
native), English: fluency in speaking, reading, and writing.
Classical Arabic, French: reading and writing competence.
Middle Persian, Avestan, Old Persian: reading competence.
Kurdish, Lori, Baluchi, Gilaki: Linguistic knowledge.
Professional Affiliations
(1984-Present)
Member, Linguistic Society of America (LSA).
(1984-Present)
Member, Middle East
Studies Association (MESA).
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Simin Karimi, Ph.D.
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