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Shahrzad Mahootian, Ph.D.

Available Publications

Inversion and Topicalization in Farsi Discourse: A Comparative Study. In Aspects in IranianLinguistics. Vida Sammiian, Simin Karimi, Don Stilo (eds). Cambridge Scholars Press:Newcastle, GB. 2008

Contact media: Language Choice and Identity in the New World. In Seeking Identity: Languagein Society, Nancy Mae Antrim (ed.). Cambridge Scholar Press: Newcastle, GB. 2007.
Codeswitching and Codemixing. In the International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier Ltd. Oxford, Great Britain, 2006
Mahootian, S. and Santorini, B., Implications of codeswitching for lexical TAG, in TreeAdjoining Grammar,Abeillé, A. and Rambow, O., (ed.). 2000, CSLI Publications,Stanford, CA.
Linguistic change and social meaning: codeswitching in the media. International Journal ofBilingualism, Blackwell Publishers. Vol. 9, 2005
Church, B., Ayman-Nolley, S., S. Mahootian , The Role of Gesture in Bilingual Education: Does Gesture Enhance Learning?" International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 2004.
Codeswitching and Universal Constraints: Evidence from Farsi/English. World Englishes, Vol 15, No. 3: 337-384, 1996.
Mahootian, S., and Santorini, B., Codeswitching and the complement adjunct distinction.Linguistics Inquiry, 27.3, 1996.
Birner, B and Mahootian, S., Functional constraints on inversion in English and Farsi. Language Sciences, Vol. 18, Nos 1-2: 127-138, 1996.
Santorini, B. and Mahootian., S., Codeswitching and the syntactic status of adnominal adjectives. Lingua, 96:1-27, 1995.