Omid Tabibzadeh Ghamsari (; born 1961 in

Tehran Tehran (; , ''Tehrân'') is the capital and largest city of Iran. It is the capital of Tehran province, and the administrative center for Tehran County and its Central District (Tehran County), Central District. With a population of around 9. ...

) 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 Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. He is a winner of

Farabi International Award The Farabi International Award is given annually by the Iranian Ministry of Science, Research and Technology to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to humanities. Farabi Award winners become a member of Iran's National Elites Fou ...

and is known for his research on

Persian phonology The phonology of the Persian language varies between regional dialects and standard varieties. Persian is a pluricentric language and countries that have Persian as an official language have separate standard varieties, namely: Standard Dari ( ...

Persian grammar The grammar of the Persian language is similar to that of many other Indo-European languages. The language became a more analytic language around the time of Middle Persian, with fewer grammatical case, cases and discarding grammatical gender. The ...

Dependency grammar Dependency grammar (DG) is a class of modern Grammar, grammatical theories that are all based on the dependency relation (as opposed to the ''constituency relation'' of Phrase structure grammar, phrase structure) and that can be traced back prima ...

and

Persian metres Persian metres are the patterns of long and short syllables, 10 to 16 syllables long, used in Persian poetry. Over the past 1000 years the Persian language has enjoyed a rich literature, especially of poetry. Until the advent of free verse in the ...

. Tabibzadeh received his BA in

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from Shahid Bahonar University and his MA and PhD in linguistics from

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 ...

. Tabibzadeh previously taught at

Bu-Ali Sina University Buali Sina University, also written Bu-Ali Sina University (, ''Danushgah-e Bu'li Sina''), or simply BASU, is a public university in the city of Hamedan in the Hamedan province of Iran. The university was established with the assistance of France ...

. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Language and Linguistics''.

Books

* ''Metrics of the Persian Folk Poetry'', Omid Tabibzadeh, Tehran: Niloufar, 2003 * ''Persian Grammar'', Omid Tabibzadeh, Tehran: Markaz, 2012 * ''Verb Valency and Basic Sentence Structures in Modern Persian'' (A Dependency-Based Approach), Omid Tabibzadeh, Tehran: Markaz, 2006

References

External links

Tabibzadeh at Bu-Ali Sina University's Website
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