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April 2019
A Tribute to Morteza Neydavoud
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Read More about A Tribute to Morteza NeydavoudPourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Pollet Samvelian
Word Order Variation and Change in the Languages of Western Asia Western Asia is an area of linguistic diversity and longstanding contact between languages of different families (Indo-European, Semitic, Turkic, Caucasian). Research on language contact globally has revealed that shared structural features can emerge among unrelated languages in geographically delimited areas via contact between speakers. This inescapably leads to growing differences between languages initially considered typologically similar. Yet, not all linguistic changes are induced by contact; instead, some are internally…
Read More about Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series: Pollet SamvelianMay 2019
UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series: Mother of the Earth
The UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series' final event of the 2018-2019 academic year is a screening of Mother of the Earth, a Karestan documentary by director Rakhshan Banietemad. The director will be present for a Q&A session following the film. This event will feature a Persian film with English subtitles and a Persian Q&A.
Read More about UCLA Bilingual Lecture Series: Mother of the EarthBook Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate World
Copies of the book will be available for sale from the ASUCLA Bookstore at this event. To RSVP, please click here.
Read More about Book Talk by Nile Green: The Persianate WorldAncient Iran and the Classical World
You are invited to attend: Ancient Iran and the Classical World A two-day international symposium jointly hosted by the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA and the Getty Research Institute Wednesday, May 29th – 306 Royce Hall, UCLA Thursday, May 30, 2019 – Getty Villa, VN 113-114 Full schedule coming soon. Please RSVP to Marissa Stevens at stevensma@humnet.ucla.edu
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