Post-predicate elements in the Western Asian Transition Zone: A corpus-based approach to areal typology

Geoffrey Haig is professor of linguistics at the University of Bamberg. He specializes in language typology and areal linguistics, with a focus on quantitative methodologies drawing on multi-lingual spoken-language corpora.

Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand is professor of linguistics at Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. His research centres on the syntax of Persian and other new Iranian languages. He has published on issues connected with word order, clitics, definiteness, transitivity, aspect and evidentiality.

Donald L. Stilo has a B.S. in Languages from Georgetown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Linguistics with a concentration in Iranian languages. He taught Persian in various universities in the United States, was a scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, for ten years, and in 2005/2006 was a fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in Uppsala. He has been retired since 2012 and splits his time between the United States and the Netherlands.

Laurentia Schreiber is a researcher at the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Bamberg. She focuses on language contact and multilingualism in minority languages and obtained her PhD recently with a grammar of endangered Romeyka in Turkey.

Nils Schiborr is a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of General Linguistics at the University of Bamberg. He has worked on discourse processing, referential choice, and the interface of discourse and grammar, chiefly from a corpus-based typological perspective. He has co-developed a number of annotated corpora for typological research, among them the Word Order in Western Asia Corpus (WOWA), the Hamedan-Bamberg Corpus of Contemporary Spoken Persian (HamBam), and the Multilingual Corpus of Annotated Spoken Texts (Multi-CAST).