Hamid Hassani or Hamid Hasani ( fa, حمید حسنی, ku, Hemîd Hesenî; ; born 23 November 1968 in
Saqqez
Saqqez ( ; fa, سقز ; ), also known as Saghez, Saqez, Saqqiz, Saqiz, and Sakīz, is the capital city of Saqqez County in Kurdistan Province, in northwestern Iran. According to the 2016 census, its population was 165,258.
Etymology
The nam ...
) is an Iranian
scholar
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and
researcher
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, concentrated on Persian
lexicography
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* Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries.
* Theoreti ...
,
dictionary
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-making, and Persian
corpus linguistics, also an
expert on Persian, Standard
Arabic
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, and
Kurdish
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*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
prosody (
metrics
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Mathematics
In mathema ...
/
versification).
Publications, international lectures, and awards
A. Books in Persian:
* 2009: Published ''Persian Beginner's Dictionary'', (in Persian: ''Farhang-e Zabān-āmūz-e Fārsī, Sat.h-e Moqaddamātī''), with
Behruz Safarzadeh, Tehran,
Iran Language Institute (ILI), xvi + 1210 + iv pp ();
* 2005: Published ''
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
Today
Corpus
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Linguistics
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* Corpus linguistics, a branch of linguistics
Music
* ...
: The Most Frequent Words of Today Persian, based on a one-million-word corpus'' (in Persian: ''Vāže-hā-ye Porkārbord-e Fārsi-ye Emrūz''), Tehran,
Iran Language Institute (ILI), 322 pp ();
* 2004: Published ''Arabic
Poetry
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:
Prosody and
Rhyme'' (in Persian: ''`Arūz-o Qāfiyeh-ye `Arabī''), Tehran, `Elmī va Farhangī, v + 144 pp ();
* 2004: Published ''Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in
Rhetoric
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'' (in Persian: ''Madārej-ol-Balāgheh dar `Elm-e Badī`''), by
Rezā-Qolī Khān Hedāyat, edited and
annotated
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by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, The
Academy of Persian Language and Literature
The Academy of Persian Language and Literature (APLL) ( fa, فرهنگستان زبان و ادب فارسی, ''Farhangestân-e Zabân-o Adab-e Fârsi'') is the regulatory body for the Persian language, headquartered in Tehran, Iran. Formerly know ...
, xix + 164 pp ();
* 2001: Published ''A
Glossary
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of
Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran'' (in Persian: ''Farhang-e Mowzū`i-e Qānūn-e Asāsi-e Jomhūri-e Eslāmi-e Irān''), Tehran, Rowzaneh 162 pp ();
* 1998: Published ''Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl
Who's Who'' (in Persian: ''Tazkereh-ye Mer'āt-ol-Khiyāl''), by Shīr-`Alī Khān Lūdī, edited and annotated by Hamid Hassani (co-editor: Behruz Safarzadeh), Tehran, Rowzaneh, xxi + 370 pp ();
* 1992: Published ''Poetry of
Nima (a research on poetic meters and forms of
Nima Yooshij
Nimā Yushij ( fa, نیما یوشیج) (11 November 1895 – 4 January 1960), also called Nimā (), born Ali Esfandiāri (), was an Iranian poet. He is famous for his style of poetry which he popularized, called ''she'r-e now'' (, lit. "new p ...
)'' (in Persian: ''Musīqi-e She`r-e Nīmā (tahqīq-ī dar owzān va qāleb-hā-ye she`ri-e Nīmā-Yūshīj)'', Tehran: Ketāb-e Zamān 272 pp.
B. Papers in Persian:
* 1991–present: Published more than 95 papers in Persian on Persian, Arabic, and Kurdish language and literature.
C. International lectures in Persian and English:
* 2006: "The One-Million-Word Corpus of Today Persian" (in Persian: "Peykare-ye Yek-Miliyon-Loghati-e Fārsi-e Emrūz", held at The Institute of Oriental Studies and Written Heritage of the Academy of Sciences, 5th International Congress of Persian and
Tajik Scholars,
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
,
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...
, March 2006;
* 2006: "Necessity of making a today Tajik linguistic corpus" (in
Tajik-
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
: "Zarūrat-i girdovari-i yak paykara-yi zabonī baroyi Tojiki-i imrūz", held at
Tajik State National University (in
Tajik language
Tajik (Tajik: , , ), also called Tajiki Persian (Tajik: , , ) or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligi ...
: Донишгоҳи миллии Тоҷикистон),
Tajikistan
Tajikistan (, ; tg, Тоҷикистон, Tojikiston; russian: Таджикистан, Tadzhikistan), officially the Republic of Tajikistan ( tg, Ҷумҳурии Тоҷикистон, Jumhurii Tojikiston), is a landlocked country in Centr ...
,
Dushanbe
Dushanbe ( tg, Душанбе, ; ; russian: Душанбе) is the capital and largest city of Tajikistan. , Dushanbe had a population of 863,400 and that population was largely Tajik. Until 1929, the city was known in Russian as Dyushambe (ru ...
, March 2006;
* 1997: "Poetry of Nima-Yooshij, Free Verse or Blank Verse?" (in English), held at
University of Oslo
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(
Blindern
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Campus
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),
Oslo
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,
Norway
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, September 1997;
* 1997: "Persian Prosody and Necessity of Professional Studies" (in Persian: "'Arūz-e Fārsi va zarūrat-e tahqīq-e takhassosī dar ān" (in Persian), held at Kloden
Institute
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In some countries, institutes can ...
, Oslo, Norway, September 1997.
D. Awards (some):
* 2010: Rewarded at "The 28th Iranian Best Yearbook
Festival
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", October 2010, at the "Language Field", Tehran; for the book ''Persian Beginner's Dictionary'', (in Persian: ''Farhang-e Zabān-āmūz-e Fārsī, Sat.h-e Moqaddamātī''), with
Behruz Safarzadeh, Tehran,
Iran Language Institute (ILI), xvi + 1210 + iv pp;
* 2009: Rewarded at "The 6th Festival of the Best Book Review (of the Year 2008) at the field "Linguistics", Tehran, November 2009; for reviewing the book "A Dictionary of Proper Nouns
General Culture (by Gholām-Hossein Sadri-Afshār, in collaboration with Nasrin & Nastaran Hakami, Tehran, 2005)"; the paper has been published in ''Lexicography Journal'' ( fa, مجلّۀ فرهنگنویسی, italic=yes), Vol. I, No. 1, December 2007, pp. 270–279 (Tehran)
Projects to be done
* The
Persian Word Bank (): A One-Hundred-Million-Word Corpus, with
part-of-speech tagging
In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or PoS tagging or POST), also called grammatical tagging is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definitio ...
(POS tagging), and ''A
Frequency Dictionary of
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
'', under preparation;
* ''The
Dari (East Persian) Corpus'': A One-Million-Word Corpus, with
part-of-speech tagging
In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or PoS tagging or POST), also called grammatical tagging is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definitio ...
(POS tagging), to be prepared;
* ''The
Tajik Language
Tajik (Tajik: , , ), also called Tajiki Persian (Tajik: , , ) or Tajiki, is the variety of Persian spoken in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan by Tajiks. It is closely related to neighbouring Dari with which it forms a continuum of mutually intelligible ...
Corpus'': A One-Million-Word Corpus, with
part-of-speech tagging
In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or PoS tagging or POST), also called grammatical tagging is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definitio ...
(POS tagging), to be prepared;
* ''The
Sorani Kurdish
Central Kurdish (), also called Sorani (), is a Kurdish dialect or a language that is spoken in Iraq, mainly in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah, and West Azerbaijan in western Iran. Sorani is one of the two of ...
Corpus'': A One-Million-Word Corpus, with
part-of-speech tagging
In corpus linguistics, part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging or PoS tagging or POST), also called grammatical tagging is the process of marking up a word in a text (corpus) as corresponding to a particular part of speech, based on both its definitio ...
(POS tagging), to be prepared.
References
Further reading
Jām-e-Jam Online: ''Persian Today Corpus''
Ādine Book: ''Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in Rhetoric''
Ādine Book: ''Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme''
Ādine Book: Two books by Hamid Hassani
Ensāni: Some papers by Hamid Hassani
Rāsexoon website: ''Arabic Poetry: Prosody and Rhyme''
Rāsexoon website: ''A Glossary of Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran'' by Hamid Hassani
Rāsexoon website: ''Poetry of Nimā-Yooshij'' (a book by Hamid Hassani)
Noormags: Some papers by Hamid Hassani (1)
Noormags: Some papers by Hamid Hassani (2)
Noormags: ''On French Poetry'' (a critical paper by Hamid Hassani)
Behnam Design website: ''Persian Beginner's Dictionary'', with Behruz Safarzadeh
External links
Hamid Hassani's profile at The Linguist List (International Linguistics Community Online)
Hamid Hassani's profile at LinkedInHamid Hassani's profile at AcademiaHamshahri Online, "28th Yearbook Award Festival, 2010"
Website of The Academy of Persian Language and Literature: "28th Yearbook Award Festival, 2010"
Borna News: "28th Yearbook Award Festival, 2010"
Jām-e-Jam Online: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"
Fārs News: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"
News Iran: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"
Hayāt: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"
*
ttp://www.aftabir.com/news/view/2009/nov/17/c5c1258464659_art_culture_book_publication_book.php/ Āftāb: "6th Festival of Book Critique, 2009"
''Persian Beginner's Dictionary'' (Persian: ), with Behruz Safarzadeh
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1968 births
Living people
Iranian Kurdish people
People from Saghez
Linguists from Iran
Members of the Academy of Persian Language and Literature
People from Kurdistan Province
University of Tehran alumni
Kurdish scholars
Iranian grammarians
Iranian lexicographers
Linguists of Persian
Linguists of Kurdish