Masoud Mohammadirad

Dr Masoud Mohammadirad is a Researcher in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, specializing in Iranian linguistics and language documentation. His work focuses on Kurdish and Gorani languages, particularly in areas such as language contact, morphology, and corpus linguistics.

Education:

• PhD in Linguistics (2020), Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III
• M.A. in General Linguistics (2013), Bu-Ali Sina University
• B.A. in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (2010), Sanandaj University

Research Interests:

• Western Iranian languages (Hewrami, Laki, Kurdish dialects)
• Language contact phenomena in the Zagros region
• Historical linguistics and sound change
• Morphosyntactic typology

Projects:

• ERC-funded project "Echoes of Vanishing Voices" (2021-2025) investigating minority language histories in West Asia
• Co-authoring A Grammar of Hewramî (forthcoming)

Teaching:

• "Sounds and Words" (Li1)
• "Historical Linguistics" (Li11)