Shahrzad Mahootian
Biographic Data
| ID | 88334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shahrzad Mahootian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shahrzad |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahootian |
| SIGNATURE | MAHOOTIAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northeastern Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Linguistic change and social meaning
This article investigates the relationship between code choice, bilingual identity and language change. Code choice and codeswitches in a bilingual Spanish-English publication are examined with two questions in mind. The first asks the extent to which stylistic and social variables, including identity, govern code choice. The second looks at the relationship of code choice to language change. Based on the pattern of code choice found in a popular…
The Role of Gesture in Bilingual Education
Studies investigating the role gesture plays in communication claim gesture has a minimal role, while others claim that gesture carries a large communicative load. In these studies, however, the role of gesture has been assessed in a context where speech is understood and could easily carry the entire communicative burden. We examine the role of gesture when speech is inaccessible to the listener. We investigated a population of children who, by …
Persian
Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. This is the first comprehensive grammar of Persian and provides detailed coverage of all its linguistic aspects, including the syntax, morphology and phonology.
Code‐switching and universal constraints
Structural constraints on codeswitching have been the focus of much research and debate. While some researchers claim to have discovered universal constraints on codeswitching (Belazi et al. , 1994; Di Sciullo el al. , 1986; Joshi, 1985; Myers‐Scotton, 1993; Sankoff and Poplack, 1981), others deny the possibility of constraints motivated solely by syntactic considerations (Bokamba, 1989; Clyne, 1987). In a significant departure from both of these…
Functional constraints on inversion in English and Farsi
In this paper we demonstrate that discourse-functional constraints on inversion in Farsi correspond to those on inversion in English despite differences in word order. Farsi canonically exhibits SXV word order, but permits a marked ordering of XSV. Although this word order is like that of English topicalization, it does not share the discourse function of topicalization in English; instead, Farsi XSV word order corresponds functionally to English…
Codeswitching and the syntactic status of adnominal adjectives
Codeswitching and the syntactic status of adnominal adjectives
Functional constraints on inversion in English and Farsi
In this paper we demonstrate that discourse-functional constraints on inversion in Farsi correspond to those on inversion in English despite differences in word order. Farsi canonically exhibits SXV word order, but permits a marked ordering of XSV. Although this word order is like that of English topicalization, it does not share the discourse function of topicalization in English; instead, Farsi XSV word order corresponds functionally to English…
Codeswitching and the syntactic status of adnominal adjectives
Code‐switching and universal constraints
Structural constraints on codeswitching have been the focus of much research and debate. While some researchers claim to have discovered universal constraints on codeswitching (Belazi et al. , 1994; Di Sciullo el al. , 1986; Joshi, 1985; Myers‐Scotton, 1993; Sankoff and Poplack, 1981), others deny the possibility of constraints motivated solely by syntactic considerations (Bokamba, 1989; Clyne, 1987). In a significant departure from both of these…
Functional constraints on inversion in English and Farsi
In this paper we demonstrate that discourse-functional constraints on inversion in Farsi correspond to those on inversion in English despite differences in word order. Farsi canonically exhibits SXV word order, but permits a marked ordering of XSV. Although this word order is like that of English topicalization, it does not share the discourse function of topicalization in English; instead, Farsi XSV word order corresponds functionally to English…
Persian
Persian, or Farsi, is one of the world's oldest languages. Dating back to the sixth century B.C., it is spoken today by over forty million people in Iran and 5 million in Afghanistan. This is the first comprehensive grammar of Persian and provides detailed coverage of all its linguistic aspects, including the syntax, morphology and phonology.
The Role of Gesture in Bilingual Education
Studies investigating the role gesture plays in communication claim gesture has a minimal role, while others claim that gesture carries a large communicative load. In these studies, however, the role of gesture has been assessed in a context where speech is understood and could easily carry the entire communicative burden. We examine the role of gesture when speech is inaccessible to the listener. We investigated a population of children who, by …
Linguistic change and social meaning
This article investigates the relationship between code choice, bilingual identity and language change. Code choice and codeswitches in a bilingual Spanish-English publication are examined with two questions in mind. The first asks the extent to which stylistic and social variables, including identity, govern code choice. The second looks at the relationship of code choice to language change. Based on the pattern of code choice found in a popular…
Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing
Linguistics (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Code-switching (2 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (2 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (2 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)