Publications

Tense & Aspect (in Conditionals)

Revised & Resubmitted to Natural Language Semantics. Presuppositions of Tense and Strength of Counterfactuality
Revised & Resubmitted t0 NLLT. What's in an X-marked conditional: evidence from sequence of tense. with Michela Ippolito.
Modal Past is Past: evidence from non-SOT languages. with Michela Ippolito. to appear in the Proceedings of WCCFL 41. [paper]
From Perfectivity to Performativity in Conditionals. in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 28. [paper]
Aspectual distinctions in Farsi indicative and subjunctive forms. under review at Advances in Iranian Linguistics, Volume III. [paper]

Indefinites

Indefinites in Negated Intensional Contexts: An argument for world-skolemized choice functions. S&P. Vol 17 [paper]
Choice functions & Binder Roof Constraint. to appear in the Proceedings of WCCFL 41. [paper]
Functional indefinites: Skolemization As Alienable Possession. in the Proceedings of ESSLLI 2021- p.198-210. [paper]
In prep. A unified theory of indefinites

Neg-raising & typology of modals

Missing words and missing worlds. with Hedde Zeijlstra. in the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 27. [paper]
Neg-raising without lexical excluded middle inferences: Resolving Horn Clauses and other problems. with Hedde Zeijlstra. in the Proceedings of the 23rd Seoul International Conference on Generative Grammar (SICOGG 23)- p.281-291. [paper]
Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. In prep. A non-lexical approach to Neg-raising

Other work

Licensing by Modification: Existential Readings of Bare Plurals in Farsi. In the Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 25- p.666-683.[paper]
Micro-Variation in Aspect Splits in Nominative-Accusative system. UMass Amherst generals paper. [paper]

Presentations

February 2025. talk at IGG50. What is mood about?
March 2025. poster at Glow 47. What is mood about?
March 2025. talk at Workshop: (Universal) Paradigmatic Gaps at Glow 47. with Ethan Poole. Syntactic variables and crossover.
May 2025. talk at NACIL 4. What is mood about?

February 2024. Invited talk at S-Side Story at USC. Embedded Tenses in Conditionals and Strength of Counterfactuality

September 2023. Invited lecturer at WoSSP19's pre-conference classes. Toward a unified theory of indefinites [handout]
September 2023. Invited Speaker at WoSSP19. Embedded Tenses in Conditionals [slides]
September 2023. Sinn und Bedeutung 28. From Perfectivity to Performativity in Conditionals [p os ter ]
June 2023. English Linguistics Oberseminar, University of Göttingen. Choice functions & Binder Roof Constraint
June 2023. TripleA 10. From Perfectivity to Performativity in Conditionals [handout]
May 2023. WCCFL41. Choice functions & Binder Roof Constraint [poster]
May 2023. WCCFL41. with Michela Ippolito. Modal Past is Past: evidence from non-SOT languages [slides]

November 2022. International Conference on Tense and Aspect in Conditionals. Presuppositions of Tense and Strength of Counterfactuality
September 2022. Sinn und Bedeutung 27. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra .Missing words and missing worlds.
July 2022. Workshop on Modality at Creteling Summer school. Missing modals. Presented by Hedde Zeijlstra
June 2022. HU-Workshop on Multiple Modality. Missing Words and Missing Worlds. Presented by Hedde Zeijlstra
April 2022. GLOW 45.Workshop on Typological generalizations and semantic theory. Strength of counterfactuality and presuppositions of tense pronouns.
April 2022. CLS 58. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. Missing words and missing worlds. [poster]
February 2022. DGFS 2022. Commitments in Grammar and Discourse (Commit22). Performative Conditionals.
February 2022. the Iranian Linguistics Research Team, University of Arizona. Cross-linguistic variation in the strength of counterfactually: the role of tense.
January 2022. LSA 2022. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. Neg-raising without lexical excluded middle. [slides]
January 2022. LSA 2022. Functional indefinites: Skolemization as implicit possession. [slides]

December 8th. Converging On Causal Ontology Analyses (COCOA) come-as-you-are online workshop. Persian Counterfactuals.
December 9-11th. CSSP 2021. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. A non-lexical approach to Neg-raising.
October 1st. Moscow HSE pragmatics Workshop. Functional indefinites: Skolemization as implicit possession. [slides]
October 1s. Moscow HSE pragmatics Workshop. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. Neg-raising without excluded middle.
August 12. the 2021 ESSLLI Student Session. Skolemization As Implicit Alienable Possession. [slides]
August 11. SICOGG 23. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. Neg-raising without lexical excluded middle inferences in English and Farsi.
July 11th. IATL 36th. Zahra Mirrazi & Hedde Zeijlstra. A non-lexical approach to Neg-raising. [handout]

2020. Sinn und Bedeutung 25. Licensing by Modification: Existential Readings of Bare Plurals in Farsi. [slides]
2020. CamCoS 9 New. Micro-Variation in Aspect Splits in Nominative-Accusative system. [handout]

2019. Glow42. Indefinites: An argument for Skolemization with World Variables. [handout]
2019. Glow42. Rodica Ivan & Zahra Mirrazi. Minimal pronouns & T-Agreement effects: the case of Farsi Fake Indexicals. [slides]