Maziar Toosarvandani
Graduate Student
syntax, semantics, pragmatics, language documentation, language change and variation
Languages: Iranian (Farsi, Zoroastrian Dari), Numic (Northern Paiute), Germanic (English, Danish)
B.S., Biology and Linguistics (University of Virginia '03), M.A., Linguistics (University of California, Berkeley '06)
Contact information
Email: mtoosarvandani@berkeley.edu
Web site: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/~maziart/
Selected publications
To appear. With Molly Babel, Andrew Garrett, and Michael J. Houser. Descent and diffusion in language diversification: A study of Western Numic dialectology. International Journal of American Linguistics.
To appear. Letting negative polarity alone for let alone. In Tova Friedman and Satoshi Ito, eds. Proceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory XVIII. Ithaca, NY: CLC Publications.
To appear. Patterns of nominalization in Numic. International Journal of American Linguistics 76.
To appear. The relevance of focus: The case of let alone reopened. In María Biezma, Christopher Davis, and Jesse Harris, eds. UMOP 39: Papers in pragmatics. Amherst, MA: GLSA.
To appear. Scalar reasoning and the semantics of let alone. In Papers from the Forty-Fourth Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society.
2009. Ellipsis in Farsi complex predicates. Syntax 12:60-92.
2008. Wh-movement and the syntax of sluicing. Journal of Linguistics 44:677-722.
2007. With Michael J. Houser and Line Mikkelsen. Verb Phrase Pronominalization in Danish: Deep or surface anaphora? In Erin Brainbridge and Brian Agbayani, eds. Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth Western Conference on Linguistics, 183-195.