Prof. Dr. Saloumeh Gholami

CURRICULUM VITAE

RESEARCH AREAS

Comparative and historical linguistics, documentary linguistics, minority languages, language and identity, perceptual dialectology, codicology, Judeo-Iranian languages, Zoroastrian languages

EDUCATION

04.05.2022

Habilitation in Comparative Linguistics, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University of Frankfurt

“The Secondary life of Avestan manuscripts: Colophons and Marginal Notes”, Mentor: Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert

01.10.2010

Ph.D. in Iranian Studies, Institute of Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

Thesis “Selected Features of Bactrian Grammar”, Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Philip Kreyenbroek

02.02.2005

Master in Ancient Iranian Languages and Culture, Faculty of Literatures and Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran,

MA thesis on “the vocabulary of Old Persian on the basis of Aramaic, Elamite and Akkadian subsidiary traditions”

CURRENT POSITION

2020 –

Professor for Minority Languages in the Middle East

Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2018 – 2020

Visiting Professor, Department of Linguistics, Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamadan

2011 – 2018

Research Assistant, Institute for Empirical Linguistics, University of Frankfurt

2007 – 2009

Research and teaching assistant at the Seminar for Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany

2006 – 2011

Assistant lecturer for “Iranian Art History”, “The Analysis of Islamic Art”, and “Art and Culture in Shahname” and tutor for Modern Persian at the Seminar for Iranian Studies at the University of Göttingen, Germany

INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2022 –

Representative for Master applications in Comparative Linguistics

2020 –

Member of Executive Board of the research cluster “Minority Studies: Language and Identity,” Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

2020 –

Project leader of “Kurds in Germany – Between Self-identification and External Ascription,” LOEWE-Cluster “Minority Studies: Language and Identity.”

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

2023

Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages Visiting Fellowship, University of Oxford

2018 – 2020

Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Granted by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (Amount 79.704 EUR)

RESEARCH GRANTS AND SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS

2022

Symposium Minorities in the Zagros Language and Identity, Stiftung zur Förderung der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Beziehungen der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität, Amount 3068 EUR

2020 – 2024

Minority Studies: Language and Identity, funded by Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts, Amount: 3,750,314 EUR

2018 – 2020

Documenting endangered Jewish dialects of Iran: The case of Judeo-Yazdi and Judeo-Kermani” (Grant ID: MDP0398), Funded by Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, University of London, Amount: 173,311 GBP

2017 – 2018

Preservation and digitization of Zoroastrian historical documents and Avestan manuscripts (Grant ID: EAP 1014), Funded by Endangered Archives Programme, British Library, London, United Kingdom, Amount: 35,886 GBP

2018

Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Islands and Language Contact, Application for support of conferences, Granted by Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Amount: 15,000 EUR

2017

Innovative Forschung und Lehre durch Digitalisierung und Bewahrung einer neuen Sammlung awestischer Handschriften in Yazd. Granted by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany (Grant ID: 09-1705-0115)

2015 – 2018

The colophons of the Iranian Avestan manuscripts (Grant ID: GH 144/1-1); Funded by German Research Foundation, Amount: 210,000 EUR

2015 – 2017

Editing Avestan Network (Grant ID: 238802432), Funded by German Research Foundation, Amount: 57,430 EUR

2016

Grant for lecture journey in Iran. Granted by DAAD

2014 – 2016

“German-Iranian Cooperation on Zoroastrian Studies”, DFG grant to support the initiation of international collaboration. Granted by DFG (German Research Foundation)

2013 – 2015

Documenting a religious minority, the Dari dialect of Kerman (Grant ID: MPI156291), Funded by Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, University of London, Amount: 123,637 GBP

2012

“The language of Zoroastrians in Iran”, a research stay Grant, Funded by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

2011 - 2012

“The position of Bactrian among Middle Iranian Languages” Granted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research via Minerva Foundation (Project West-Iranian Dialectology) and Soudavar Foundation

2011

Frankfurt FGS- Research-Assistantship. Granted by DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

FUNDRAISING

Feb 2020

Fundraising for restoration of a manuscript and documentation of the language of Zoroastrian in Iran in cooperation with Zoroastrian Trust Funds of Europe in London (Amount 3,700 GBP)

Jun 2019

Fundraising for the Museum of manuscripts and historical documents in Yazd (Amount 40,000 EUR)

REVIEWING ACTIVITIES

2022 –

Reviewer, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies

2022 –

Reviewer, Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, de Gruyter

2020 –

Reviewer, Cahiers de Studia Iranica, France

2018 –

Reviewer, Iranian Studies – Taylor & Francis

2016 –

Reviewer, Journal of Historical Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing

2016 –

Reviewer, Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, SOAS, University of London (until 2021) and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (since 2021)

MEMBERSHIPS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

2022–

Editorial Board, Journal of Religious Minorities Under Muslim Rule, Brill (Responsible for minority languages)

2021–

Editorial Board, Journal of Iranian Studies, University of Kerman

2020 –

Editorial Board, Iranian Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research, University of Hamadan, Iran

2017 –

Member of the Societas Iranologica Europaea (SIE)

2016 –

Member of ALI (The Atlas of the Languages of Iran), Carleton University, Canada

2015 –

Member of ADA (Avestan Digital Archive), University of Salamanca (Spain) and Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

2015 –

Founding Member of ISEIL (International Symposium on Endangered Iranian languages), Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

MAJOR COLLABORATIONS

2021–

Collaboration with the project “Linguistic Adaptation: Typological and Sociolinguistic Perspectives to Language Variation (GramAdapt)” at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Responsible for Zazaki-Turkish contact scenario

2021–

Collaboration with the Cluster of Excellence Understanding Written Artefacts at the University of Hamburg on Zoroastrian scribal practices on the basis of material evidence

2021–

Collaboration with SOAS, University of London on “Zoroastrian scribal practices in a transcultural perspective”

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

Winter Semester 2022-2023

1) Aufbau Modull II, scientific writing, 2) Methods of Empirical Research: Interview

Summer Semester 2022

1) Perceptual Dialectology, 2) Types and Methods of Empirical Research, 3) Judeo-Iranian languages

4) Organizer and instructor of the lecture series “On the Methods, Theories and Practice of Interdisciplinary Minority Research”

Winter Semester 2022-2023

1) Aufbau Modull II, scientific writing, 2) Methods of Empirical

Winter Semester 2021-2022

1) Methods of Language Island Research, 2) Minority Languages, 3) Sorani Kurdish

Summer Semester 2021

1) Language and Identity, 2) Judeo-Iranian Languages, 3) Zaza Language

Winter Semester 2020-2021

1) Linguistic Fieldwork, 2) Linguistic Minorities, 3) Avestan Language

Department of Linguistics, Bu-Ali Sina University of Hamadan, Iran

2019 – 2020

1) Historical Development of Iranian Languages, 2) Language Documentation and Data Collection

Institute for Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany

2011 – 2018

1) Old Persian, 2) Middle Persian, 3) New Persian, 4) Gilaki Language, 5) Zoroastrian Dari, 6) Pashto, 7) Bactrian

Seminar for Iranian Studies, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany

2006 – 2011

Instructor for Persian

SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS

2016 – Number of Postdocs: 7, Number of Ph.D. students: 7

Postdoctoral Projects Advised:

“Aesthetic Aspects in Persian Metaphors”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Researcher: Leila Erfaniyan Qonsuli (2020-2022)

“Dialectology of Hawrami”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Sanandaj, Researcher: Zaniar Naghshbandi (2021-2023)

“The Gurani language and the interplay between Yaresani oral and written transmission”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and University of Sanandaj, Researcher: Behrooz Chamanara (2021-present)

“Documenting of Zoroastrian Dari: a religious minority in Yazd.” A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Research Institute for Cultural Heritage and Tourism, Iran, Researcher: Azadeh Pashootanzadeh

“Identity of Ahl-e Haqq community in Češin: The interplay of language and ethnicity”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Buali Sina University of Hamadan,

Doctoral Projects Advised (current):

“Arameans, Assyrians or Syrians? The Suryoye community in the field of tension between Self Designation, Ethnicity and Diaspora”, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Researcher: Sanherib Ninos

“Towards a grammar of the Semnāni language”, Ramin Nodehi, Joint-Ph.D. Program between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Istituto italiano di Studi Orientali, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy

“The dialectology of Judeo-Gorani: The Gorani Texts in Hebrew Script”, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Researcher: Hamidreza Nikravesh

“The morphosyntax of the Zazaki noun phrase”, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Researcher: Aysel Çelik.

“Dialect of Hamadani”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Buali Sina University of Hamadan, Researcher: Fariba Sabouri

“Investigating the grammatical differences between Literary Gorani and Hawrami from the perspective of language contact”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Buali Sina University of Hamadan, Researcher: Said Karami

“The historical development of Zoroastrian Dari in the last 200 years”, A joint project between Goethe University of Frankfurt and Azad University Science and Research Branch, Researcher: Mehraban Pouladi

BA and MA-Thesis Advised:

“Gender-comparative consideration of the designations of women in German rap - a corpus-based analysis”, MA Thesis, Researcher: Fatimeh Cécile Saffari (2021-2022)

“Relative clause in Bactrian”, BA Thesis, Researcher: Elena Panina

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

Sep. 2022

Organizer and speaker, Minorities in the Zagros – Language & Identity, A cooperation with the centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien (CERES), University of Frankfurt (Together with Dr. Thomas Jügel)

Dec 2019

Workshop of Language Documentation Tools ELAN, FLEX, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran (number of participants ca. 30)

Oct 2018

Conference of Language Islands and Language Contact in Iran, Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, Germany (number of participants ca. 80)

Oct 2018

Fall School on Documentary Linguistics in the MENA Region, a cooperation with ELDP, University of London and Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics (ZAS), Berlin, (number of participants ca. 30)

Aug 2018

Workshop on Language Documentation, Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Batumi, Georgia (number of participants ca. 50)

Jan 2018

Workshop on “Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx)” at Liebniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS), Berlin, Germany

Dec 2017

Symposium on “An endangered heritage: Zoroastrian manuscripts, historical documents and language”, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

Oct 2017

Workshop on “The aims and purpose of questionnaires in language documentation”, Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, Iran

Oct 2017

Workshop on “Essentials of Language Documentation”, University of Tehran, Iran.

Mar 2017

Conference on “Editing the Avestan Texts in the 21st Century; Problems and Perspectives,” Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (number of participants ca. 50)

Feb 2017

Workshop on “A New Collection of Avestan Manuscripts from Iran (Pouladi’s Collection)”, Institute of Iranian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Jul 2016

International Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages (ISEIL) University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, France.

Feb 2016

Workshop on “Essentials of Language Documentation”, Department of Linguistics, the Allameh Tabataba'i University in Tehran, Iran.

Feb-Mar 2016

International Workshop on Documentation of Endangered Iranian Languages, A cooperation between Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, Encyclopædia Iranica in Columbia University in New York and Department of English Language and Literature at Persian Gulf University in Bushehr, Iran

Oct 2015

Workshop on “Language Documentation, Annotation Tools and Meta Data Management”, Department of Linguistics, University of Tehran, Iran.

Oct 2015

International Seminar on Ancient Iranian Languages, Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran.

Feb 2015

International Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages (ISEIL) Empirical Linguistics, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.

Aug 2014

Workshop on “Annotation Tools: Elan and Flex”, Empirical Linguistics, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany

PLANNED SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS

Jun 2023

Organizer and speaker, Language, society & identity in diverse ethnolinguistic contexts (LSI), University of Frankfurt

PRESENTATIONS

Sep 2022

The dialectology of Judeo- Gūrānī: The Gūrānī texts in hebrew script. Workshop of Minorities in the Zagros – Language & Identity, Frankfurt

Sep 2022

Problems in establishing the Zaza–Gūrānī language family. Workshop of Minorities in the Zagros – Language & Identity, Frankfurt

Sep 2022

The Avestan citations and their Pahlavi translations in the colophons of Avestan and Pahlavi manuscripts. The 34th Deutsche Orientalistentag (DOT), Berlin

May 2022

“Minority Languages as a Means of Reconstructing Extinct Majority Languages: The Language of the Jews in Hamadan”, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Apr 2022

“Ethnolinguistic vitality and minority languages”, Lecture series of Research Cluster: Minority studies: Language and identity, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Feb 2022

“Judeo-Gorani typology: A historical-comparative approach”, Trial lecture for W3 professorship for comparative linguistics, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Nov 2021

“A new approach to the dialectology of Gorani”, The First Conference on Dialectology, Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Tehran

Nov 2021

“E-codicology,” Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, Tehran

Mar 2020

“Neu entdeckte zoroastrische Handschriften im Iran (2016-2020)”, Freie Universität Berlin

Dec 2019

“Data collection methods in language documentation,” University of Bushehr, Iran

Sep 2019

“Minority languages as a device of reconstruction - the example of Hamadani,” Ninth European Conference of Iranian Studies (ECIS 9), Freie Universität Berlin

Oct 2019

“New discoveries in Avestan manuscript studies”, University of Tehran, Iran

Jul 2019

“Endangered Zoroastrian heritage of Iran: New insights from recently discovered manuscripts,” SOAS, University of London

May 2019

“Endangered Zoroastrian heritage of Iran: New insights from recently discovered manuscripts,” Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge

Mar 2019

“Is former vernacular language of Hamadan reconstructable?” Fourth International Conference on Iranian Languages and Dialects

Feb 2019

“Language death and the importance of language documentation,” International Conference on Mother Language, Ministerium für Kulturerbe, Kunsthandwerk und Tourismus, Tehran, Iran

Jan 2019

“Colophons and marginal notes of the Iranian Avestan manuscripts”, Bahonar University, Kerman, Iran

Dec 2018

“Typology of Iranian languages,” Buali-Sina University of Hamadan, Iran

Dec 2017

“Die Dialektologie der Kolophone der awestischen Handschriften”. Symposium „Ein bedrohtes Erbe: Zoroastrische Handschriften, historische Dokumente, Sprache“, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Oct 2017

“Typology of Iranian languages: Old theories and new outcome,” The Second International Seminar of Iranian Languages, Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran

Mar 2017

“Editing the colophons of the Avestan manuscripts.” At the conference on “Editing the Avestan Texts in the 21st Century; Problems and Perspectives,” Freie Universität, Berlin

Mar 2017

“Dialectology of Eastern Iranian languages,” University of Tehran, Iran

Feb 2017

“Avestan manuscripts in Arbāb Mehraban Poulad’s Collection and remarks on the colophon of the Videvdad 1022”. Freie Universität Berlin

Jul 2016

“Pronominal clitics in Zoroastrian Dari (Behdini) of Kerman,” Second International Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages, CNRS, Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle

Apr 2016

“Dialectal phonological variations in the colophons of the Avestan Manuscripts,” CNRS, Universität Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle

Feb 2015

“Zoroastrian Dari and a dialect map,” First International Symposium on Endangered Iranian Languages, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Feb 2014

“Language documentation and annotation tools”, University of Tehran, Iran

Dec 2014

“Documenting of a religious minority, Zoroastrian Dari in Kerman”, Bahonar University Kerman, Iran

Aug 2013

“The Position of Zoroastrian Dari among the Western Iranian Languages”, Fifth International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL5), University of Bamberg

Sep 2013

“Zoroastrian Dari”, School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS, University of London

Nov 2013

“The role of Sālmargs and colophons in the story of priest and scribe families”, University of Salamanca, Spain

Jul 2012

“Discovering the new Avestan manuscripts in Iran”, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Jun 2012

“Clitics in Middle Iranian languages”, first International Conference of Iranian Languages and Dialects: Past and Present, Tehran, Iran

Nov 2011

“Codicology in Middle Persian Manuscripts”, Goethe University of Frankfurt

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Gholami, S. (forthcoming). The secondary life of Avestan manuscripts: Colophons and marginal notes. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Gholami, S. and Farahmand, A. (2016). Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) language in Kerman. Estudios Iranios y Turanios Supplementa, Didactica. 1, Girona.

Gholami, S. (2014). The Avestan Manuscript 4040 (Ave1001), Videvdād Iranian Sāde of the Private Collection of Kourosh Niknam. Avestan Digital Archive Series 76.

Gholami, S. (2014). Selected features of Bactrian grammar. Göttinger Orientforschungen. III. Reihe: Iranica. Neue Folge. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.

PLANNED BOOK

Gholami, S., Azarandaz, A. and Bagheri, M. (planned for 2023). Khorde Avesta of the Pouladi’s Collection scribed by Molla Goshtasb Kermani. Iranian Studies Series. University of Kerman

EDITED VOLUMES

Gholami, S. (2020). Endangered Iranian Languages: Language Contact and Language Islands in Iran, Commemorating Ehsan Yarshater. Iranian Studies, 53:3–4. Abingdon: Routledge.

Gholami, S. (2018). Endangered Iranian Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert

Gholami, S. (2016). Dance in Iran: Past and Present. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

PLANNED EDITED VOLUME

Gholami, S and Hintze, A. (planned for 2023). Zoroastrian languages of Iran and India. Wiesbaden: Reichert.

Gholami, S and Karim Sh. O. (planned for 2023). Gorani in its historical and linguistic setting, problems and prescriptions.

SELECTED ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS AND EDITED VOLUMES

Gholami, S. (together with Karami, S. Forthcoming 2023). “A corpus-based study of alignment in Literary Gorani, based on the manuscript Dīwān-e Mawlawī (Sig. 11092) at the Āstān-e Qods-e Rażawī Library.” In: Iran and the Caucasus, Brill: Leiden-Boston

Gholami, S. (Forthcoming 2022). “Problems in establishing the Zaza–Gorani language family.” In: Iranian Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research.

Gholami, S. (Forthcoming 2022). “Three Zoroastrian manuscripts from the collections of Ahmad Tafazzoli and Mehdi Gharavi in the Library of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature in Tehran.” In: Samra Azarnouche, Touraj Daryaee and Shervin Farridnejad (ed.). Festschrift for Jaleh Amouzegar. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden.

Gholami, S. (Forthcoming, September/October 2022). “The Zoroastrian manuscripts of the Rostam Jāmāsb ’s family and a new dating of Videvdād 4100.” Dabir Journal – Jordan Center for Persian Studies, UC Irvine, Nr. 10 (September/October 2022).

Gholami, S. (Together with Sabori, F., Rasekhmahand, M.) 2022: “Discourse marker diye in Hamadani.” In: Language and Linguistics, 2/19, 171–193.

Gholami, S. (2022). “On the terminology designating the Zoroastrians of Iran and their language.” In: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Volume 85 Issue 1, Online available DOI:10.1017/S0041977X22000313

Gholami, S. (2022). “Classification of the Zazaki language based on the perspectives of perceptual dialectology and comparative linguistics” [in Persian]. In: Iranian Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research. Year 11, Nr. 22. DOI: 10.22084/RJHLL.2021.24754.2169

Gholami, S. (2021). “Judeo-Hamadani, the languages of Jews in Hamadan.” In: Iranian Studies, 54:5-6, 769-805, DOI: 10.1080/00210862.2020.1848420

Gholami, S. (2021). “Using questionnaires as a tool for data collection and developing a questionnaire for the historical phonology of Iranian languages.” In: Amin Shayeste Dust (ed.). Dādestān-e dīnī. Tehran: Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopedia, 189–211.

Gholami, S. (2020). “The Dialectology of Baba-Taher Quatrains and its role in the reconstruction of the former vernacular language of Hamadan.” In: Iranian Journal of Comparative Linguistic Research, 20, 25–59.

Gholami, S. (2020). “The Collection of Avestan manuscripts of the Ataš Varahrām in Yazd.” In: Estudios Iranios y Turanios, 4, 31–49.

Gholami, S. (2019). “Typology of Iranian languages: Old theories and new outcomes.” In: Mehri Bagheri and Abbas Azarandaz (eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Seminar of Iranian Languages (Kerman, October 15 to 16, 2017). Bahonar University of Kerman, 123–142.

Gholami, S. and Pouladi, M. (2019). “Colophons and marginal notes of the Avestan manuscripts of the Pouladi’s collection in Yazd.” In: Iranian Studies, 52:1–2, 3–59.

Gholami, S. (2018). “Remnants of Zoroastrian Dari in the colophons and Sālmargs of Iranian Avestan manuscripts.” In: Iranian Studies 51:2, 195–211.

Gholami, S. (2018). “Pronominal Clitics in Zoroastrian Dari (Behdīnī) of Kerman. In: S. Gholami (Ed.) Endangered Iranian Languages. Wiesbaden: Reichert, pp. 111–122.

Gholami, S. (2016). “Zoroastrians of Iran vi. linguistic documentation.” In: Encyclopaedia Iranica, available at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/zoroastrians-in-iran-06 (Accessed on 8 February 2021).

Gholami, S. (2015). “Compound strategies in Middle Iranian Languages.” In: Krasnowolska/ Rusek-Kowalska (eds.), Studies on the Iranian World: Before Islam. Proceedings of the 7thEuropean Conferences of Iranian Studies (Cracow 2011). Kraków: Jagiellonian University Publishing House, 27–45.

Gholami, S. (2015). “The Death of Zoroastrian Dari in Kerman.” In: The Middle East in London, SOAS, University of London, Vol. 11, N. 5, October-November 2015, pp. 7–12.

Gholami, S. (2012). “Dāstān-e Videvdād-e 1004.” (The story of an Avestan manuscript: Videvdād-e 1004). In: Fravahr No.453 (1391), pp. 29–31.

Gholami, S. (2011). “Definite articles in Bactrian.” In: Korn/ Haig/ Karimi/ Samvelian (eds.): Topics in Iranian Linguistics. Beiträge zur Iranistik, Band 34, pp. 11–22.

Gholami, S. (2009). “Demonstratives and Determiners in Bactrian.” In: From Daēnā to Dîn: Religion, Kultur und Sprache in der iranischen Welt: Festschrift für Philip Kreyenbroek zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp. 19–26.

BOOK REVIEWS

Gholami, S. (forthcoming). Review of “Rzehak, Lutz and Aswar, Bidollah. Dari-Persisch. Wiesbaden: Reichert.” In: Abstracta Iranica.

Gholami, S. (2020). Review of “Farridnejad, Shervin. Die Sprache der Bilder: Eine Studie zur ikonographischen Exegese der anthropomorphen Götterbilder im Zoroastrismus [The language of images: A study on iconographic exegesis of the anthropomorphic divine images in Zoroastrianism]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2018, 534p. (Iranica 27). ” In: Abstracta Iranica, Volume 40-41, 2019: Comptes rendus des publications de 2017-2018.

Gholami, S. (2017). Review of “Die Entwicklung der Ergativkonstruktion im Alt- und Mitteliranischen − Eine korpusbasierte Untersuchung zu Kasus, Kongruenz und Satzbau [The development of the ergative construction in Old and Middle Iranian: A corpus-based approach]. Iranica 21, ed. by Maria Macuch, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.” In: Quarterly Journal of Language and Inscription, Vol.1, No.1, pp. 53–61.

Gholami, S. (2015). Review of “Sims-Williams, Nicholas 2010: Iranisches Personennamenbuch. Band II: Mitteliranische Personennamen, Fasz.7: Bactrian Personal Names. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.” In: Orientalische Literaturzeitung 2015; 110(1):1–5.

Gholami, S. (2013). Review of “Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan. III: Plates. Studies in the Khalili Collection, Vol. 3. CIIr. Pt. 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. 4, Bactrian. By Nicholas Sims-Williams. pp. 270. Oxford, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 2012. In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 23 (2013), pp. 389–396.

Gholami, S. (2013). Review of “Bactrian Documents from Northern Afghanistan I: Legal and Economic Documents (revised edition). Studies in the Khalili Collection, vol. 3. CIIr. Pt. 2, Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian Periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Vol. 4, Bactrian. By Nicholas Sims-Williams. pp. 171. Oxford, The Nour Foundation in association with Azimuth Editions and Oxford University Press, 2012.” In: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 23 (2013), pp. 389–396