Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context [PDF]
The book brings together leading scholars on languages of the Zagros mountains spanning the borderlands between Iraq and Iran. It contains contributions on the Gorani literary Koine, language documentation, contact between Neo-Aramaic Christian and ...
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The Importance of Being Diverse: The Idiosyncratic Ethnobotany of the Reka Albanian Diaspora in North Macedonia [PDF]
Cultural diversity and biodiversity are strongly intertwined through the ways in which local human communities have understood, categorized, perceived, and used nature and species for centuries. Folk nomenclature and uses of wild plants in particular are
Berisha R. +3 more
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The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî. [PDF]
Contemporary dialects of Goranî (a Northwestern Iranic language spoken in Kurdistan) exhibit considerable variation in the formation of tense-aspect-mood categories. It has long been recognized that compatibility of the indicative/imperfective prefix mi-
Mohammadirad M, Karim SO.
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Reduplikacje syntaktyczne typu dremla dremlesta w etnolekcie gorańskim [PDF]
In this article I discuss the topic of the one type of Gorani syntactic reduplications such as dremla dremlesta, cincar cincaresti, glitalan glitalanesti examples and many more.
Długosz, Natalia
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Attributive constructions in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (Volume 15) [PDF]
This study is the first wide-scope morpho-syntactic comparative study of North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic dialects to date. Given the historical depth of Aramaic (almost 3 millennia) and the geographic span of the modern dialects, coming in contact with various
Gutman, Ariel
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A perceptual dialectological approach to linguistic variation and spatial analysis of Kurdish Varieties [PDF]
This paper presents the results of the first investigation into Kurdish linguistic varieties and their spatial distribution. Kurdish dialects are used across five nation states in the Middle East and only one dialect, Sorani, has official status in one ...
Benedikt, Josef, Duran Eppler, Eva
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KERMANSHAH vii. Languages and Dialects [PDF]
Kermanshah Province (Kermanshahan) is linguistically characterized by a triad of Kurdish, Gurāni (q.v.), and Persian within a multifaceted, areal-tribal-social setting.
Borjian, Habib
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Language Contact in Sanandaj [PDF]
This book is a detailed study of contact-induced change in the Neo-Aramaic dialect of the Jews of Sanandaj, a town in western Iran. Since its foundation in early 17th century, the city has been home to a significant Jewish community.
Khan, Geoffrey, Mohammadirad, Masoud
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Macedonians of Islamic Religion in the Context of Identity Theories [PDF]
In line with the theories of variability, fluctuation and instability of ethno-cultural identities, this paper deals with some sensitive issues surrounding the creation of new (sub-ethnic and sub-cultural) microidentities within one nation, in this case ...
Kulavkova, Katica
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Remarks on the Historical Development and Syntax of the Copula in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialects [PDF]
This paper examines some aspects of the morphology and syntax of the copula in the North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic (NENA) dialects. The first part proposes a possible pathway for the diachronic development of the morphology of the copula, with particular ...
Khan, Geoffrey
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