Curriculum vitae

(Vetenskapsrådet), Stockholm, Sweden. Head of project.
Language, identity and society – a documentation of minority language in Iran, their
sociolinguistic milieu and the role of the language in individual and group identity. In
cooperation with the Department of English and Linguistics, University of Sistan and
Balochistan, Iran. Financed by the Swedish Research Council-SIDA, Swedish
Research Links. Head of projects. 2007-2010.
Documentation of the language and lifestyle of the Galesh, province of Golestan, Iran
Documentation project PPG0043. Pilot project financed by Endangered Languages
Documentation Project, SOAS, London. Together with Guiti Shokri and Hossein
Barani.
Symposium and workshop organisation:
Symposium on the Balochi language, Uppsala, May 1997.
Presentation: Language maintenance and language attitudes among Baloch in
Sweden.
2nd international symposium on the Balochi language, Uppsala, 17-20 Aug. 2000.
Presentation: The case system in Iranian Balochi from a contact linguistic perspective.
3rd international conference with focus on Balochistan: Pluralism in Balochistan,
Uppsala, 18-21 Aug. 2005.
Presentation: Relative clauses in Balochi and the marking of the antecedent. Influence
from Persian
Workshop on research methods in phonetics with a particular aim towards researchers
and students from Iran. In cooperation with Dr. Pétur Helgason, Dept. of Linguistics
and Philology, Uppsala University. To be held in Uppsala, 13-16 August 2007.
Languages and dialects in Iran. International conference on documentation of
minority languages in Iran and their sociolinguistic milieu. In cooperation with the
University of Sistan and Balochistan, Zahedan, Iran, and other international
researchers. Zahedan 28-31 October 2008.
Presentation: Hypotactic constructions in spoken and written Balochi.
FLEX (Field Works Language Explorer)
Workshop I in Uppsala, April 2009 (led by Daniel Paul, SIL International)
Workshop II in Uppsala, April 2010 (led by Ron Lockwood, SIL International)
Participation in other international conferences and workshops than those
organised by myself (see above):
Types of Evidentiality in Turkic, Iranian ande Neighbouring Langauages, held at the
Swedish Research Intitute in Istanbul, April 1997. Organisers: Lars Johanson and Bo
Utas.
Presentation: Indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian.