Handbook of Persian Dialects and Dialectology

Alireza Korangy received his Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His field of research is classical Persian and Arabic philology with a special emphasis on poetics, rhetoric, folklore, and linguistics. He has conducted extensive research and published on Iranian and Persian linguistics.  Alireza Korangy currently teaches in the Faculty of Humanities and Civilization Studies at the American University in Beirut. He has previously taught at the University of Virginia, the University of Colorado, and Harvard University.Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari is a Professor of linguistics and Persian at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Tehran. As an expert in the field of Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers, he is a co-author of the well-known Series Fārsī Bīyāmūzīm (Let's Learn Persian, 2001), and Persian for Dummies (2017) as well as his Tense in Persian (2002), and Essays on Typology of Iranian Languages (2019). His books in press are Kinship Vocabulary in the Iranian Languages (Yerevan University Press), and A Grammar of Lori (with Alireza Korangy, MGL). He has contributed to many edited volumes in linguistics, including Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics (2018) and The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian (2020).

• 1. Judeo-Persian Texts from Bukhara.- 2. Hazaragi and linguistic behaviour of the Hazaras.- 3. Historical Dialectology of Persian and the Dialects of the Fārs Province .- 4. A Persian-lexified pidgin recorded in 18th-century Japan.- 5. Outstanding problems in Persian historical phonology: toward a quantitative solution.- 6. Dialectal Variation: The Case of Kermanshahi Persian.- 7. Spoken Persian in Afghanistan: The colloquial standard of Dari.- 8. On the analysis of geminates in  Iranian Sistani dialect.- 9. Dialectometry Analysis of Language Varieties in Yazd Province.- 10. Sitting on the ground between two carpets: The co-effect of Arabic and Lari on the Persian fluency of Lari native speakers.- 11. A corpus-based analysis of faux amis (false friends) in Persian and Tajik varieties: Pragmatic and pedagogical solutions.- 12. Grammaticalization of Persian Light Verbs:The Case of Clitic Climbing in the Complex Predicates of Persian Dialects.- 13. Phonetics and Phonology of Cliticsin Formal and Informal Persian.- 14. Kinship and bird terminology in the dialects of Southeast Iran: a survey of words for child, chicken, and sparrow.- 15. Triggers and Targets: Nasals and Vowels in Tehrani Persian.- 16. Speakers’ Attitudes Toward Regional, Shirazi and Standard Persian: A Cognitive Sociolinguistic Lectal Study on Persian in Fars Province.- 17. The Dialect of Esfahan Revisited Phonological Analysis.- 18. Bāseri Dialect of Fārs.