This chapter investigates the word order profiles of three Kurdic varieties spo-ken in the
mountainous Zagros regions of Western Iran. The term Kurdic here refers both to the …

This study applies a corpus-based quantitative approach to the word order typology and
linguistic theories about word order in several genetically unrelated language varieties in …

Sorani Kurdish, also known as Central Kurdish, has a complex morphology, particularly due
to the patterns in which morphemes appear. Although several aspects of Kurdish …

This book presents a documentation and analysis of Harsini, the language variety spoken by
the people of Harsin, a small urban centre located in south-east Kermānshāh Province …

A paradigm of pronominal clitics are known to exist in all of the Western Iranian languages
except in Sangesari (Central Plateau), Northern Kurdish (though see below on their …

The traditional view within Kurdish linguistics is that the split between Central Kurdish (CK)
and Northern Kurdish (NK) is mainly the result of a Gorani substrate within the former group …

This paper offers a first systematic investigation of predicative possessive constructions
across Western Iranian languages. The notion of possession is conceived as a prototypical …

Historical linguistic studies on words lead to the genesis of clitics. Clitics function like
independent words but they are phonologically dependent and in order to be pronounced …

Soranî Kurdish can reference up to two arguments morphologically, a subject agreement
marker and an incorporated object pronoun. One of the argument referencing morphs is …

A cursory examination of the grammar of Kurdish and Gorani varieties shows the existence
of convergence. In this chapter, I examine several obvious and several less apparent …