Omid Tabibzadeh

Omid Tabibzadeh Ghamsari (Persian: امید طبیب‌زاده قمصری; born 1961 in Tehran) is an Iranian linguist and Professor of Linguistics at the Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies. He is a winner of Farabi International Award and is known for his research on Persian phonology, Persian grammar, Dependency grammar and Persian metres.^[1][2][3][4] Tabibzadeh received his BA in English from Shahid Bahonar University and his MA and PhD in linguistics from University of Tehran.^[5][6][7][8] Tabibzadeh previously taught at Bu-Ali Sina University. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Language and Linguistics.^[9]

Gilbert Lazard (left) and Omid Tabibzadeh, 2013

Omid Tabibzadeh
Born	1961 Tehran
Awards	Farabi International Award
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Tehran
Thesis	Metrics of the Persian Folk Poetry (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Yadollah Samareh
Influences	Abolhassan Najafi, Parviz Natel Khanlari, Ali Ashraf Sadeghi
Academic work
Institutions	Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies, Bu-Ali Sina University
Main interests	Phonology, Phonetics, Persian grammar, Persian metres

Books

• Metrics of the Persian Folk Poetry, Omid Tabibzadeh, Tehran: Niloufar, 2003
• Persian Grammar, Omid Tabibzadeh, Tehran: Markaz, 2012
• Verb Valency and Basic Sentence Structures in Modern Persian (A Dependency-Based Approach), Omid Tabibzadeh, Tehran: Markaz, 2006