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

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and

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, concentrated on Persian

lexicography Lexicography is the study of lexicons, and is divided into two separate academic disciplines. It is the art of compiling dictionaries. * Practical lexicography is the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries. * Theoreti ...

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies ...

-making, and Persian corpus linguistics, also an expert on Persian, Standard

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, and

Kurdish Kurdish may refer to: *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 (

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/ 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

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: 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 Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

: Prosody and Rhyme'' (in Persian: ''`Arūz-o Qāfiyeh-ye `Arabī''), Tehran, `Elmī va Farhangī, v + 144 pp (); * 2004: Published ''Madārej-ol-Balāgheh in

Rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

'' (in Persian: ''Madārej-ol-Balāgheh dar `Elm-e Badī`''), by Rezā-Qolī Khān Hedāyat, edited and

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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

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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-

: "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),

, March 2006; * 1997: "Poetry of Nima-Yooshij, Free Verse or Blank Verse?" (in English), held at

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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

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, Oslo, Norway, September 1997. D. Awards (some): * 2010: Rewarded at "The 28th Iranian Best Yearbook

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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

'', under preparation; * ''The Dari (East Persian) Corpus'': A One-Million-Word Corpus, with

(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

(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

(POS tagging), to be prepared.

References

External links

Hamid Hassani's profile at The Linguist List (International Linguistics Community Online)

Hamid Hassani's profile at LinkedIn

Hamid Hassani's profile at Academia

Hamshahri 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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Publications, international lectures, and awards

Projects to be done

References

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