| (May 2025) |
Karim, Shuan Osman and Masoud Mohammadirad. The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranian languages. Paper presented at the fifth North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics. University of Toronto. |
| March 2025 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Archaism and Innovation in Kurdish. Invited talk at Siebold Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS), Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. |
| February 2024 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Contact reinforces comparative reconstruction: a case study in Kurdish and Gorani. Invited talk at Goethe University Frankfurt. |
| February 2024 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Progressive to negative and other unexpected developments in Iranian languages. Based on ongoing work in collaboration with Masoud Mohammadirad. Invited talk at the University of Surrey. |
| Sept 2023 |
Karim, Shuan Osman and Erika Just. Wordhood domains in Central Kurdish (project update). Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL6) at the Goethe University Frankfurt. |
| Sept 2023 |
Karim, Shuan Osman and Kellen Parker van Dam. The accentual system of Ankara Northern Kurdish. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL6) at the Goethe University Frankfurt. |
| Sept 2023 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, Illustrated through the Interplay between Sound Change and Analogy in the Progressive-to-Imperfective Cycle in Northern, Central, and Southern Kurdish. Paper to be presented at Sound change and morphological analogy (IG-AT2023) at the University of Cologne. |
| Sept 2023 |
Karim, Shuan Osman and Saloumeh Gholami. W8: Filling in the diachronic gaps: The view of Old Iranian from the present. Workshop to be convened at the twentysixth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26) at the University of Heidelberg. |
| Nov 2022 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Definiteness, DOM, and Ezafat: the reflexes of Proto-Indo-Iranian k-form evaluative suffixes. Paper presented at the 2022 conference of the European research network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area (LACIM) at Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales. |
| Sept 2022 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Disentangling mutually shared innovations, shared retentions, coincidence, and contact phenomena in Southern Kurdish and Gorani. Paper presented at the ``Minorities in the Zagros - Language & Identity'' workshop at the Goethe University Fankfurt. |
| Aug 2022 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Towards a new paradigm in Historical Syntax. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at Oxford University. |
| Aug 2022 |
Joseph, Brian D., Shuan Osman Karim, and Kakela Awai-Jennings. Historical Linguistics in High School: The Columbus Experience. Paper presented at the 25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics at Oxford University. |
| Feb 2022 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. The Kurdish Imperfective: Diachronic, Typological, and Pan-Iranian Perspectives. Invited talk in the Department of Linguistics at HSE University. |
| Nov 2021 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. The synchrony and dichrony of applicative morphology in Soranî Kurdish. Invited talk at the University of Arizona. |
| Sept 2021 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. A diachrony of Kurdish imperfective affixes. Paper presented at the 5th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL5) at the University of Graz. |
| Aug 2021 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Towards a typology of the ezafe: the Iranian ezafe as a type-raising functor. Paper presented at the 5th American International Morphology Meeting at the Ohio State University. |
| Apr 2021 |
Karim, Shuan Osman and Ali Salehi. Applicatives in Soranî Kurdish. Presented at the 4th Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL4) at the University of Indiana Bloomington. |
| Aug 2020 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. The Diachrony of Central Kurdish Applicative Markers. Presented at the Societas Linguistica Europaea 2020 (SLE2020) WS 6: Neglected syntactic functions andnon-syntactic functions of Applicative Morphology. Bucharest, Romania. |
| July 2019 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. Competition between formatives and the diversity of ezafat. Presented at the 24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24). Canberra, Australia. |
| Apr 2019 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. The Origin of the ezafe Paradigm in Zazaki (and Other WesternIranian Languages). Presented at:the 2nd North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL2). Tucson, Arizona. |
| Oct 2018 |
Karim, Shuan Osman. The Kurmancî tense ezafe and its Deep Roots in Western Iranian. Presented at the 8th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics. Yerevan. Armenia. |
