Other

Very seldom, I do research on subjects outside of Armenian or computational linguistics.

Acoustics of promience in Uzbek

Similar to my work on Armenian, I collaborated with Dr. Irene Vogel‘s Prosodic Typologies lab in order to document the acoustics of stress and focus in Uzbek

  • TU publication (pdf, link)
    Athanasopoulou, Angeliki, Irene Vogel, and Hossep Dolatian (2021) “Acoustic properties of word and phrasal prominence in Uzbek.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic. Vol. 5. No. 1. https://doi.org/10.3765/ptu.v5i1.4796

Relative clauses in Northern Tajik

I helped some folks look at how relative clauses are formed in Northern Tajik (an Iranian language). The language inherited an analytical structure for RCs, but it also acquired a synthetic method because of language contact with Uzbek.

  • Paper (link) and TU poster
    Afsheen Sharifzadeh, Hossep Dolatian, and Jonathan North Washington (2024) ” Prenominal relative clauses in Northern Tajik Persian: Analytic to synthetic morphology and a new contact perspective.” Proceedings of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic 9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12300

Long-distance allomorphy in Southern Tati verbal agreement

With Neda Taherkhani, I look at how agreement markers in Southern Tati verbs are conditioned by the valency or transitivity of the verb. Over an item-and-arrangement or piece-based model, we see that the trigger for allomorphy (the root) is not adjacent to the target of allomorphy (the agreement suffix), but can be pretty far away

  • Paper (link, preprint) and NACIL slides
    Neda Taherkhani and Hossep Dolatian (2024) “Valency-conditioned allomorphy in the verbal agreement of the Takestani dialect of Southern Tati.” Transactions of the Philological Society. 123: 29-64. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-968X.12300

Morphomes in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran

With the help of a lot of people, I looked at verb stems as morphomes in different languages in the region. Currently it’s just a slide presentation.

  • Hossep Dolatian. Morphomic verb stems in Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran. [slides]