Introduction / Anousha Sedighi, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi -- Morphology / Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari -- Lexicography / Seyed Mostafa Assi -- Academy of Persian Language and Literature / Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam -- Sociolinguistics / Yahya Modarresi -- Language Contact and Multilingualism in Iran / Shahrzad Mahootian -- Persian as a Heritage Language / Anousha Sedighi -- Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages / Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Anousha Sedighi -- Psycholinguistics / Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi -- Neurolinguisitcs / Reza Nilipour -- Computational Linguistics / Karine Megerdoomian -- From Old to New Persian / Mauro Maggi, Paola Orsatti -- Typological Approaches and Dialects / Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam -- Phonetics / Golnaz Modarresi Ghavami -- Phonology / Mahmood Bijankhan -- Prosody / Arsalan Kahnemuyipour -- Generative Approaches to Syntax / Simin Karimi -- Other Approaches to Syntax / Jila Ghomeshi -- Specific Features of Persian Syntax / Pollet Samvelian