Mahbod Ghaffari: Grammaticalization of “Dāshtan”  

The 74th episode of Parse is an excerpt from talk a given by Dr. Mahbod Ghaffari titled the “Grammaticalization of “Dāshtan”.  

Mahbod Ghaffari is an Associate in Persian Language and Culture at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics in Iran and a certificate in “Leadership in Higher Education” from the University of Oxford. He has taught Persian language and culture, Iranian cinema, linguistics, methodology, and translation, at different universities since 1998. He has published Fārsi Biyāmuzim/Let’s Learn Persian series in 5 levels, Persian for Dummies in 2018 and developed ⁠www.persianlanguageonline.com⁠, which is a three-level interactive online Persian program (2013-2015). 

To watch the full talk, click here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pdl8kmNc8CM&t=1094s⁠