Shahriar Hormozi

I am Shahriar, a fourth-year PhD student in Linguistics at the University of Arizona.

I hold a Master’s degree in Theoretical Linguistics from the University of Tehran and had the opportunity to spend a semester at Ca' Foscari University of Venice as part of the Erasmus+ exchange program. My research focuses on the interfaces between semantics and syntax, particularly in Iranian languages and sign languages. I am particularly interested in how syntactic structures interact with meaning and how different languages uniquely manifest these interactions.

As a member of the Iranian linguistics research team, I am the chair of SSOIL (The Summer School of Iranian Languages), a unique program providing students with direct access to state-of-the-art advances in Iranian linguistics. I am also part of the organizing team for LILA Talks (Lectures on Iranian Linguistics in Arizona), a lecture series that fosters discussions on cutting-edge linguistic theory developments and practical applications.

Outside of my academic pursuits, I am an avid cinephile with an insatiable appetite for all things film. 

For those curious about the pronunciation of my name

"Shah" is pronounced like "sha" in "Shaq O'Neal" (the "h" is optional)

"Ri" is pronounced like "ree" in "reef"

"Ar" is pronounced like the "ar" in "car"