About me

Vahideh I am currently conducting research, with Dr. Jesse Harris at UCLA, on resolving ambiguous elliptical structures in Persian.

I completed a postdoctoral position as a researcher and lecturer in 2020, in the Department of Linguistics at UCLA, where I was employed as Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellow in Iranian Linguistics. In collaboration with Dr. Jesse Harris, I conducted experiments on processing and interpreting elliptical structures in Persian.

I received my Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stony Brook University in 2018. In my dissertation Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian, which was advised by Dr. John Bailyn, I studied various elliptical structures in Persian and provided a unified syntactic analysis on the basis of the interaction between information structure and ellipsis licensing feature bundles.

I received my Masters in Linguistics from California State University, Fresno in 2009 and my Masters in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Tehran University in 2006.

Contact Info

Email: vrasekhi@gmail.com

News

October 7, 2021, my coauthored paper with Jesse Harris Resolving ambiguous polarity stripping ellipsis structures in Persian appeared in Glossa.

July 22, 2020, my paper on Stripping Structures with Negation in Persian, appeared in Advances in Iranian Linguistics, John Benjamins Publishing Company.

March 20, 2020, I presented Disambiguating stripping ellipsis in Persian: How parallelism and locality interact at CUNY, UMass Amherst. [With Jesse Harris]

November 2, 2019, I presented Verbal anaphora in Persian: Deep or surface anaphora? at Southern California Annual Meeting on Syntax (SCAMS), Pomona College.

October 26, 2019, I presented Mapping remnant and correlate in Persian stripping at California Meeting on Psycholinguistics, UC Santa Cruz. [With Jesse Harris]

July 13, 2019, I presented Ambiguous stripping sentences in Persian: An interpretation and naturalness rating study at Experimental and Corpus-based Approaches to Ellipsis (ECBAE), UC Davis. [With Jesse Harris]

May 17, 2019, I presented Negative Stripping and Pseudo-stripping in Persian, at the 55th Meeting of Chicago Linguistic Society, at the University of Chicago.

April 25, 2019, I gave a colloquium talk at the Linguistics Department, California State University, Fresno.

April 20, 2019, I presented On the syntax of Why-stripping in Persian at the Second North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIl2), at the University of Arizona.

April 12, 2019, I presented Two types of why in syntax: Evidence from Persian Why-stripping at Sluicing and Ellipsis at 50, at the University of Chicago.

January 15, 2019, I presented Why-stripping in Persian at the Syntax Seminar at UCLA Department of Linguistics.

September 10, 2018, I became the inaugural Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellow in Iranian Linguistics at UCLA Department of Linguistics.

May 31, 2018, I defended my dissertation Ellipsis and Information Structure: Evidence from Persian, Stony Brook University.

June 2018, my paper on Markedness and Coda Conditions in Azeri appeared in Proceedings of the 10th Workshop in Altaic Formal Linguistics (WAFL 10). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics 87: 229-240.

January 2018, I had a poster presentation on Object Ellipsis in Persian at the 92nd Annual Meeting of Linguistics Society of America (LSA). [With Nazila Shafiei]