Home Department: Linguistics
SLAT Area of Specialization: Linguistic Dimensions of L2 Learning
Dr. Karimi is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics. She has appointments in the Cognitive Science Program, The Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT), the joint Program in Linguistics and Anthropology, the School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS), and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
Her research is focused on various syntactic topics within Chomskyan theoretical framework. She has worked extensively on word order and scrambling, the interaction of syntax and discourse (focus and topic), the syntax, semantics and morphology of complex predicate constructions, and complex DPs (including relative clauses), among some other topics. Her current research includes control constructions, ellipsis, and the syntax and semantics of complex predicates in various Iranian languages.
She has published journal articles, book chapters, and one book length monograph. She has also edited/co-edited five books and a special issue for the journal Lingua.