Masoud Mohammadirad

Masoud Mohammadirad is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, working on the ERC-funded project /ALHOME: Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East/. He received his PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 2020. His work centres on morphology, areal typology, language contact, and spoken corpus linguistics, with particular attention to the Kurdic languages in contact with Semitic (particularly Neo-Aramaic) and Turkic. Additionally, he is actively involved in developing documentary methods and spoken corpora for under-resourced Iranian languages.