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supervisor. Ongoing: Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz. A comparative study of the verbal system of Brahui and Balochi as spoken in Iranian Sistan. Main supervisor. Behrooz Shojai. Ergativity in Kurmanji. Main supervisor. Anders Widmark. Pashto short story writing. Main supervisor. Farhad Shakely. Personal background Classical Kurdish Poetry (Mala-yē Jazīrī). Main supervisor. Padideh Pakpour. Identity and language in Rasht. Main supervisor. Farideh Okati. The vowel system in Balochi. A phonetic-phonological study. Assistant supervisor. Mojgan Seraji. Computational linguistics. Assistant supervisor. Supervision of MA-theses in Iran Farideh Okati. Sistani Phonology. Spring 2008. University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, 2nd supervisor. Somajeh Mohammadi. Syntactic errors in L2 Persian compositions by Baloch primary school pupils in Iranshahr. Spring 2009. Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran. 2nd supervisor. Maryam Nourzaei: The verb system of Koroshi. A corpus based description. Autumn 2009. Shiraz Azad Islamic University of Science and Research. Defence 11 March 2010. Main supervisor. Personal background I grew up as the only child of quite elderly parents, who both had received only primary education. I had no intent of pursuing my studies beyond intermediate level when I started grade seven. However, at that time I got a teacher in English and French who encouraged me enormously and arouse my interest in languages. I therefore chose to continue my studies on secondary level and tried to study as many languages as possible. During the summers of 1976 and 1977 I travelled to Europe (France, Belgium and Spain) with an international Christian youth organisation called Operation Mobilisation. My first contact with Iran was indirect. In the summer of 1975 I was given a scholarship to go to England on a language course, and the family I stayed with were planning to go to Iran to work in the British-Iranian oil industry. They talked about Iran for a whole month, how rich they would become etc., and the word "Iran" stayed
in my mind. The Christian youth organisation I got in touch with shortly after also had a one- year "Language and Culture training programme" in Iran, which I planned to attend as soon as I had finished my secondary education. I prepared myself by studying as much as I could about Iran during my final year in High School. My dream came true, and I went to Iran in the autumn of 1978 together with about 10 other youth from Europe and the USA. As soon as we arrived the Islamic Revolution got underway, and it was not safe for us to stay in the country. At that time I was very confused as to what to do, since my mind was so strongly set on learning Persian and staying in Iran. However, God gave me a word of comfort from Psalm 121 (the final verse) which says: "God will protect your going out and your coming in from now and forever". The whole group went to Pakistan, and we got the option of studying Urdu or continuing with Persian. I opted for the latter. During my time in Pakistan I also heard about Iranian languages, related to Persian, but spoken in Pakistan, and I started to take an interest in one of them, Balochi. The year with the Christian youth organisation thus strongly formed the rest of my life. After returning to Sweden I applied for a student's visa to study Persian in Iran. It was granted and I returned to Iran in October 1979. This time I stayed in Iran for a year, and studied Persian at a mainly closed university due to the Cultural Revolution. I managed to acquire a fairly good proficiency in spoken Persian, something that has been of invaluable help to me in my studies and research later on. When the war between Iran and Iraq broke out I left Iran for good and started to study Iranian languages at Uppsala University, Sweden. However, I have visited Iran several times afterwards, once to meet my husband's family, once to participate in a seminar for Persian teachers, and, more recently, several times to do field research on Balochi, teach MA courses in Linguistics and establish contacts with universities in Iran, particularly in Balochistan but also in Tehran, Gilan, Mazandaran, Golestan, Semnan and Shiraz (see also reports from journeys). Research profile: My interest in the Baloch and Balochi made me choose a subject for my dissertation that was related to that language. In October 1986 I and our one-year-old daughter Maria went to Pakistan for three months. My husband came to visit us once. It was, of course, an adventure to go to Pakistan with a small child, but fortunately enough we were able to stay with a Swedish woman who was employed by the UN in Quetta. I had already started studying Balochi and was during this first field trip able to build up a network of contacts with Baloch literary men and get underway with my dissertation work. Since then the main part of my research has been concentrated on different aspects of the Balochi language and literature. I have studied both structural and sociolinguistic aspects and I have also made some studies in literature. The sociolinguistic aspect is strong in the dissertation, which dealt with the issues of standardisation and orthography. I have also studied language maintenance and language attitudes, both among the Baloch and also among other ethnic groups from Iran living in Sweden. My studies of the grammatical structure of Balochi have been mainly concentrated on dialects spoken in Iran and to what degree they are subject to structural influence from Persian, a subject very little studied up to now due to the difficulties involved in making field trips to Iranian Balochistan. First I did some preliminary studies among Iranian Baloch in Sweden, and then, within the framework of the research project
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