Jila Ghomeshi

I am a linguist specializing in syntax and morphology. I am interested in understudied languages and understudied constructions. 

• PhD (Linguistics), University of Toronto, 1996
• MA (Linguistics), University of Toronto, 1990
• BA (Honours) (Linguistics), York University 1988

Research interests

• Syntax and morphology
• Persian linguistics
• Pronouns and proper names
• Reduplication
• Prescriptivism

Research affiliations/groups

• President (2023-25) - Canadian Linguistic Association

• Ghomeshi, Jila and Diane Massam (2020) “Number is different in nominal and pronominal phrases,” Linguistic Inquiry (Squibs), Vol. 51(3), pp. 597-610. 
• Ghomeshi, Jila (2020)“The additive particle in Persian: a case of morphological homophony between syntax and pragmatics,” in Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Richard K. Larson, Sedigheh Moradi and Vida Samiian (eds) John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 57-83.
• Ghomeshi, Jila (2018) “Theoretical Approaches to Persian Syntax,” in The Oxford Handbook of Persian Linguistics, Anousha Sedighi and Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi (eds), Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 205-225. 
• Ghomeshi, Jila (2018) “The Associative Plural and Related Constructions in Persian,” in Trends in Persian and Iranian Linguistics, Alireza Korangy and Corey Miller (eds), De Gruyter Mouton, TiLSM Volume 313, Berlin/Boston, pp. 233-262. 
• Ghomeshi, Jila and Tasheney Francis (2018) “Additive and Associative Plural marking in Jamiekan,” in Proceedings of the 2018 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Emily Dmyterko (ed).
• Ghomeshi, Jila (2013) “The syntax of pragmaticalization,” in Proceedings of the 2013 annual conference of the Canadian Linguistic Association, Shan Luo (ed).

• 2014 - National Achievement Award from the Canadian Linguistic Association

• “BIPOC or IBPOC? LGBTQ or LGBTQ2S+? Who decides which terms we should use?” Article published in The Conversation, May 25, 2021
• "Grammar Matters: The social significance of how we use language", Arbeiter Ring Press, Semaphore Series, Winnipeg, published in 2010