2nd North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics

The Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona is pleased to announce that it will host the Second North American Conference in Iranian Linguistics (NACIL2), which will take place April 19-21, 2019. Additionally, the department will host a Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages in conjunction with NACIL2, which will take place April 18, 2019.


Important Dates:

Deadline for abstract submission: January 1, 2019

Decisions on submitted abstracts: February 25, 2019

Conference program posted online: March 20, 2019


This year's keynote speakers are:

Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, University of Toronto

Agnes Korn, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Richard Larson, Stony Brook University


This year's invited guest speakers are:

Noam Chomsky, University of Arizona

Anoop Mahajan, University of California Los Angeles


The invited speakers for the Workshop on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages are:

Karine Megerdoomian; MITRE Corp., Georgetown University

Pollet Samvelian, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

We would like to thank the Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona for their support of NACIL2.