Mahmoud Bijankhan (; born 1958 in
Abadan
Abadan (; ) is a city in the Central District (Abadan County), Central District of Abadan County, Khuzestan province, Khuzestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. The city is in the southwest of the coun ...
) is an Iranian linguist and professor of
linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...
at the
University of Tehran
The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...
.
He is the creator of
Bijankhan Corpus and a winner of
Khwarizmi International Award
The Khwarizmi International Award is a research award given annually by the President of Iran. The awardees, 10 senior researchers and 10 young researchers, are selected by the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). It ...
.
Bijankhan received his BSc in
applied mathematics
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from the
University of Texas at Arlington
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(1981) and his MA (1990) and PhD (1996) in linguistics from the University of Tehran.
He is known for his research on Persian phonetics and phonology and creating Persian corpora.
Books
* ''Phonology: Optimality Theory'', Tehran:
SAMT, 2006
* ''A Feasibility Study for Analysis of Ezafe in Persian Using Pattern Matching'', Tehran: Research Center for Culture, Art and Communication, 2008
* ''Persian Language and Computers'' (ed.), Tehran: SAMT, 2011
* ''Frequency Dictionary'', Tehran: University of Tehran Press, 2013
* ''Phonetic System of the Persian Language'', Tehran: SAMT, 2014
See also
*
Bijankhan Corpus
References
External links
Articles by BijankhanBijankhan CorpusPersian Corpora
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1958 births
Living people
Linguists from Iran
University of Tehran alumni
University of Texas at Arlington alumni
Academic staff of the University of Tehran
Phonologists from Iran
Phoneticians
Corpus linguists
Linguists of Persian
Grammarians from Iran
Faculty of Letters and Humanities of the University of Tehran alumni