Maryam Nourzaei
Affiliated Researcher in Iranian Languages at Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 68 48
- E-mail:
- maryam.nourzaei@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
Research
Currently I have two main projects. One involves the documentation of Kholosi, an endangered Indo-Aryan language spoken in Iran. In the other project I am documenting and analysing traditions of mamabies (songs sung to new mothers) among Afro-Baloch and other communities in Iran. A further project that is ongoing concerns the Dravidian language, Brahui.
My research interests thus extend across languages spoken in Iran belonging to three different language families. Given the varieties concerned are highly endangered, documentation has been a priority, but I also investigate language contact, particularly contacts between Iranian and Indo-Aryan and Iranian and Dravidian languages.
In addition, my research focuses on endangered cultures and traditions such as healing and pregnancy traditions, particularly among Afro-Baloch communities.
Publications
Recent publications
- Kholosi (2026)
- Post-predicates in Kholosi (2024)
- Documentation of Brahui Language as an Endangered Language (2023)
- Documentation of Jadgali Language (2023)
- Documentation of folktales in Balochi spoken in Iran (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Diachronic development of the K-suffixes (2023)
- On orality and the sociolinguistic situation of the Kholosi community (2023)
- Comparing Fading of Oral Narrative Features in Three Balochi Dialects (2022)
- Definiteness Marking from Evaluative Morphology in Balochi (2021)
- The distribution and function of person-marking clitics in Balochi dialects from an areal perspective (2021)
- The Online Atlas of the Languages of Iran: Design, Methodology and Initial Results” (2021)
- Notes on the speech of the Afro-Baloch of the southern coast of Iran (2019)
- "Those were the hungry years" (2018)
- Korosh (2015)
- The Distribution and Role of the Verb Clitic =a/a=in Different Balochi Dialects (2013)
- Impersonal Constructions In Balochi (2010)
- Afro-Baloch Communities in Modern Iran and their Healing Traditions.
- History of the K-suffix -ū in Shirazi
- On orality and the sociolinguistic situation of the Kholosi community
- Some notes on the Mamaby song's themes and motifs.
- Progressive Constructions in Different Balochi Dialects from a Diachronic and an Areal Linguistic Point of View
- First observation on the Jadgali language
- Some notes on Kholosi nominal and pronominal system
- On the function of -ag in Middle Persian
Books
- Kholosi (2026)
- Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures (2022)
- Participant Reference in Three Balochi Dialects (2017)
- Koroshi (2015)
Chapters
- Post-predicates in Kholosi (2024)
- Balochi: a cross-dialect investigation of post-verbal elements (2023)
- Getting rid of the lion (2023)
- The State of Oral Traditions in Balochi in Iran (2022)
- Mamabies songs of Afro-Balochi in memory of Abdullah Jan Jamaldini (2022)
- The Emergence of Definiteness in Koroshi (2019)
- Kholosi (2018)
- Ditransitive constructions in three Balochi dialects from a typological perspective (2018)
- Non-canonical Subjects in Balochi (2012)
- A Folktale in Koroshi Dedicated to Joy Edelman (2011)
Data sets
- Documentation of Brahui Language as an Endangered Language (2023)
- Documentation of Jadgali Language (2023)
- Documentation of folktales in Balochi spoken in Iran (2023)
- Archiving language data on definiteness in New Western Iranian languages (2023)
- Documenting oral tradition practices, predominantly among Afro-Baloch communities (2022)
- Documentation of Kholosi as an endangered language (2022)
- Kholosi (2022)
- Balochi (Coastal) (2021)
- Balochi (Koroshi) (2021)
- Archiving Balochi oral narrative texts (2018)
