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Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

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Editors:
  1. Yaron Matras

    1. Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

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  2. Geoffrey Haig

    1. Department of General Linguistics, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

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  3. Ergin Öpengin

    1. English Language Department, University of Kurdistan-Hewlêr, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Iraq

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  • Represents a unique, landmark resource on Kurdish dialects
  • Analyses the results of an extensive database created over four years and in 150 locations
  • Brings together leading specialists in the field and up-and-coming researchers

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Yaron Matras, Geoffrey Haig, Ergin Öpengin
    Pages 1-12

  3. Lexical Variation and Semantic Change in Kurdish

    • Jaffer Sheyholislami, Rahim Surkhi
    Pages 13-63

  4. Phonological Variation in Kurdish

    • Erik Anonby
    Pages 65-110

  5. Case in Kurdish

    • Songül Gündoğdu
    Pages 111-180

  6. Pronominal Clitics Across Kurdish: Areal Distribution, Structural Variation, and Diachrony

    • Ergin Öpengin, Masoud Mohammadirad
    Pages 181-237

  7. A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish

    • Sara Belelli
    Pages 239-290

  8. Adpositions in Kurdish

    • Maximilian Kinzler
    Pages 291-333

  9. Post-Predicate Constituents in Kurdish

    • Geoffrey Haig
    Pages 335-377

  10. The Typology of Connectivity and Complex Constructions in Kurdish Dialects

    • Yaron Matras
    Pages 379-454

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 455-461
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About this book

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural and Typological Variation in Kurdish and stored in the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects online resource, as well as on additional data sources. The chapters address issues in lexicon, phonology, and morpho-syntax including nominal case, tense and aspect categories, pronominal clitics, adpositions, word order (with special reference to post-predicate constituents) and connectivity and complex clauses. The materials that inform the analysis consist of a systematic questionnaire-based elicitation covering key features of variation in lexicon and morpho-syntax, and an accompanying corpus of free speech recordings, collected in over 120 locations across the Kurdish-speaking regions in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and covering mainly the dialects of Northern and Central Kurdish (Kurmani-Bahdini and Sorani), with some consideration of Southern Kurdish. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in fields such as linguistics, linguistic typology, Iranian linguistics and linguistics of the Middle East, and dialectology. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

    Yaron Matras

  • Department of General Linguistics, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

    Geoffrey Haig

  • English Language Department, University of Kurdistan-Hewlêr, Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Iraq

    Ergin Öpengin

About the editors

Yaron Matras is former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. He led the research project on Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish (2014-2017) and the creation of the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects. His research interests include contact linguistics and urban multilingualism, and the linguistics of Romani and of languages of the Middle East.

Geoffrey L. J. Haig is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He has published extensively on Kurdish and neighbouring languages, focussing on diachrony and areal linguistics, and is the co-founder of Multi-CAST, an online accessible resource for corpus-based typology.

Ergin Opengin is a Lecturer at the University of Kurdistan-Hewlêr, Iraq. His research focuses on the structural and sociolinguistic aspects of Kurdish. He is the author of The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish (Reichert Verlag, 2016), and co-editor of Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics (Bamberg University Press, 2019).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish

  • Editors: Yaron Matras, Geoffrey Haig, Ergin Öpengin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78837-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78836-0Published: 20 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78839-1Published: 21 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78837-7Published: 19 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 461

  • Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Linguistics, general, Phonology and Phonetics, Middle Eastern Culture, Morphology, Syntax, Syntax

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