Daniel Paul
Address: c/o School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
email: daniel.paul AT postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: A Comparative Dialectal Description of Iranian Taleshi
Supervisor: John Payne
Research Specialism
I have a particular interest in Iranian languages, and have previously been involved in sociolinguistic survey of smaller languages in Tajikistan (in collaboration with the State National University of Tajikistan and the Tajik government) and in Afghanistan (with the support of the government of Afghanistan).
Publications
Jahani, Carina and Paul, Daniel (Forthcoming) 'Fronting of the Voiceless Velar Plosive in Persian.' Orientalia Suecana. Uppsala University.
Paul, Daniel (In print) 'The Individuating Function of the Persian "Indefinite Suffix".' Proceedings of the First International Conference on Iranian Linguistics. Scholars Press. [Peer Reviewed]
Paul, Daniel (2007) 'Assessing language proficiency through storying.' Newcastle Working Papers in Linguistics. 13: 160-173. University of Newcastle. [Peer Reviewed]
Paul, Daniel et al (2005) 'The Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Yaghnobi.' In Clifton, John M. (ed.), Studies in Languages of Tajikistan. SIL International.
Paul, Daniel (2004) 'The Passive in Persian: An LFG Approach.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics. 13: 221-235. SOAS, University of London.
Current Teaching Areas
"World Englishes", University of Manchester second year undergraduate course: graduate teaching assistant.
"Introduction to Linguistic Change", University of Manchester first year undergraduate course: graduate teaching assistant.