Carina Jahani
Professor in Iranian Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 78 69
- E-mail:
- carina.jahani@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA - Available:
- Tis 13-14, tors 13-14
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Keywords
- human rights
- persian
- sustainable development
- iranian languages
- balochi
- language documentation
- language revitalisation

Publications
Recent publications
Balochi: Literary Development, Status and Vitality
Part of Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in Diaspora, p. 65-87, Mouton de Gruyter, 2023
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2022
Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures
2022
Strategies for Clause-combining in Oral and Written Balochi Narratives
Part of Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, p. 151-162, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2022
Synchronically unexpected /n/ in the Balochi dialect of Iranshahr
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 20-30, 2019
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All publications
Articles in journal
Synchronically unexpected /n/ in the Balochi dialect of Iranshahr
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 20-30, 2019
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Diphthongization in Five Iranian Balochi Dialects
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 107-119, 2013
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 121-125, 2013
The Balochi Language and Languages in Iranian Balochistan
Part of The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, p. 153-167, 2013
The Distribution and Role of the Verb Clitic =a/a=in Different Balochi Dialects
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 170-186, 2013
Impersonal Constructions — A Brief Introduction
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 119-121, 2010
Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran
Part of Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, p. 93-120, 2010
Impersonal Constructions In Balochi
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 169-181, 2010
Impersonal Constructions in Balochi
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 168-181, 2010
Fronting of /u/ in Iranian Sistani
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 120-131, 2009
The Status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani Dialect of Miyankangi
Part of Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, p. 80-999, 2009
Fronting of the voiceless velar plosive in Persian
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 81-89, 2008
Language attitudes and language maintenance among Iranian immigrants in Sweden
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 93-111, 2004
Bilingualism in Sweden: The example of a Swedish-Iranian family
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 235-256, 2003
Restrictive Relative Clauses in Classical and Modern New Persian and the Marking of the Antecedent
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 33-56, 2001
Articles, review/survey
Part of Encyclopædia Iranica, 2015
Books
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2022
A Grammar of Modern Standard Balochi
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2019
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2018
Uppsala University, 2016
Koroshi: A Corpus-based Grammatical Description
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2015
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2013
Möten med balocher: Varje människa är ett epos
Bokförlaget Tranan, 2013
A study of Persian discourse structure
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2009
Chapters in book
Balochi: Literary Development, Status and Vitality
Part of Iranian and Minority Languages at Home and in Diaspora, p. 65-87, Mouton de Gruyter, 2023
Strategies for Clause-combining in Oral and Written Balochi Narratives
Part of Oral Narration in Iranian Cultures, p. 151-162, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2022
The Balochi Language as a Garden. An Attempt to Create a Standard for Written Balochi
Part of Iranian Studies in Honour of Adriano V. Rossi, Part 1, p. 411-435, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2019
Part of The World's Major Languages, 3rd ed., p. 455-469, Routledge, 2018
To bring the distant near: On deixis in Iranian oral literature
Part of Trends in Iranian and Persian linguistics, p. 309-338, Mouton de Gruyter, 2018
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Part of Handbuch der Iranistik, Band 2, p. 355-363, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017
Prospectivity in Persian and Balochi and the preterite for non-past events
Part of Prospective and Proximative in Turkic, Iranian and beyond, p. 261-275, Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2017
Complex predicates and the issue of transitivity: The case of Southern Balochi
Part of From Aṣl to Zā’id, p. 79-105, The Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2015
The Baloch as an Ethnic Group in the Persian Gulf Region
Part of The Persian Gulf in Modern Times, p. 267-297, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014
Non-canonical Subjects in Balochi
Part of Iranian Languages and Culture, p. 196-218, Mazda Publishers, 2012
A Folktale in Koroshi Dedicated to Joy Edelman
Part of Leksika, Etimologiya, Jazykovye Kontatky, p. 62-70, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2011
Is there an "urban mind" in Balochi Literature?
Part of The Urban Mind, p. 457-470, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, 2010
Part of The Iranian languages, p. 634-692, Routledge, 2009
Part of The Baloch and others, p. 139-166, Reichert, 2008
Expressions of future in classical and modern new Persian
Part of Aspects of Iranian Linguistics, p. 153-175, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008
Balochernas vandring och språkets förvandling
Part of Vandring & förvandling, p. 77-85, 2006
De "ohördas" röst: Folksagans roll för att låta de svagaste i samhället komma till tals
Part of Saga och Sanning, p. 105-119, 2004
Part of Facts about the World's languages, 2001
Expressions of indirectivity in spoken Modern Persian
Part of Evidentials, p. 499, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin - New York, 2000
Collections (editor)
Iran. 4 000 år av historia, konst, religion, litteratur och språk
Uppsala universitet, 2014
Orientalia Suecana Vol LXI (2012)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2013
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. LX (2011)
Uppsala universitet, 2012
Orientalia Suecana Vol. LXI (2012): Supplement
Institutionen för Lingvistik och Filologi, 2012
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 59 (2010)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2010
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 58 (2009)
Department of linguistics and philology, Uppsala universitet, 2009
Manuscript, Text and Literature. Author: Bo Utas: Collected Essays on Middle and New Persian Texts.
Reichert Verlag, 2008
Reichert Verlag, 2008
Department of Asian and African Languages, Uppsala University, 2003
Conference papers
On the Definite Marker in Modern Spoken Persian
2015
Grammaticalisation in the verb system in Iranian languages
2015
A Persian Treebank with Stanford Typed Dependencies
Part of Proceedings of Language Resources and Evaluation, p. 796-801, 2014
Complex Predicates and the Issue of Transitivity: The case of Southern Balochi
2014
Differences between oral and written narratives in Persian in the encoding of S2 references
2013
Simple past for immediate future in some Iranian languages
2013
The Glottal Plosive: A Phoneme in Spoken Modern Persian or Not?
Part of Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion, p. 373, 2005
State control and its impact on language in Balochistan
Part of The Role of the State in West Asia, p. 191, 2005
The Case System in Iranian Balochi in a Contact Linguistic Perspective
Part of The Baloch and Their Neighbours, p. 380, 2003
Language Attitudes and Language Maintenance among Iranian Baloch in Sweden
Part of Language in Society, p. 132, 2000
Conference proceedings (editor)
Monograph doctoral thesis
Reports
Other
Elfenbein, Josef, An Anthology of Classical and Modern Balochi Literature
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 277-279, 1991