Copyright

Paul M. Noorlander; Hiwa Asadpour;

Published On

2026-01-07

Page Range

pp. 1–24

Language

  • English

Print Length

24 pages

Introduction

Chapter of: Passivisation in Semitic, Iranian, Armenian, and Beyond(pp. 1–24)

Contributors

Paul M. Noorlander

(author)
Research Associate in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at University of Cambridge
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9407-1453

(PhD, Leiden University, 2018) is a Research Associate in Hebrew and Aramaic Studies at the University of Cambridge and Lecturer in Hebrew and Aramaic at Leiden University. He has published widely on Semitic languages, both ancient and modern. His main research concerns the typology of endangered Neo-Aramaic dialects from an areal-diachronic perspective. He is a laureate of a Rubicon Fellowship awarded by the Dutch Research Council and is the author of Ergativity and Other Alignment Types in Neo-Aramaic: Investigating Morphosyntactic Microvariation (Leiden: Brill, 2021).

Hiwa Asadpour

(author)
Research Fellow at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe University Frankfurt
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7074-2435

(PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2021) is a Research Fellow at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at the Goethe University Frankfurt (JQYA), where he explores interdisciplinary applications of his linguistic research. He specialises in comparative and corpus-based linguistic analysis of Iranian and non-Iranian languages, with a focus on morphosyntax. His current research examines language production mechanisms in Kurdish varieties, Persian, Armenian, Neo-Aramaic, and Azeri-Turkic, integrating natural language corpus data (both fieldwork and published sources) with experimental results. He is actively involved in the development of treebanks for several Kurdish varieties within the Universal Dependencies framework, and is supervising the development of treebanks for other low-resource Iranian languages at Saarland University.