Elision of Glottal Consonants in Kalhori Kurdish Names [PDF]
Persian and Kalhori Kurdish, display some differences in the phonetic forms of names containing glottal consonants. This article attempts to analyze the deletion of glottal consonants of post-vocalic /h/ and /ʔ/. The data was collected through interviews
Mehdi Fattahi
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Clitic Doubling and Dislocation of Direct Object based on Evidence from Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]
The present study aimed at investigating clitic doubling in Kalhori Kurdish. The implications of clitic doubling for Kurdish syntax were also investigated.
Sara Ahmadi, Habib Gohari
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Analysis of State and Activity Aspect in Kalhori Kurdish (Based on Phasal Approach) [PDF]
Based on the phasal approach of Croft (2012), the present research has analyzed state and activity aspects in Kalhori. According to Croft's (2012) classification of aspect types, there are four types of transitory state, inherent permanent state ...
Mehrangiz Barabardeh +2 more
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The Investigation of Phonological Changes in the Negative Prefix of Kalhori Kurdish Preceding a Glide: a Serial Optimality Theoretic Account [PDF]
When the negative prefix of na- is added to Kalhori Kurdish verbal constructions with initial glides, the vowel of the prefix is left intact in certain contexts, and yet in others, undergoes partial or full assimilation of Place features with its ...
Mehdi Fattahi
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Comparing Agreement System in Kalhori Kurdish with Laki, Surani, and Kormanji [PDF]
Agreement, case marking, and word order are three important means to represent grammatical relations. Languages use these means according to their features.
Mehdi Mehdizadeh +3 more
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Vowel Elision and Assimilation in Kalhori Kurdish Subjunctive/Imperative Prefix: An Optimality-Theoretic Account [PDF]
The phonetic forms of morphemes may undergo changes depending on the phonetic context they are situated in. These changes are more prominent in verbal structures. The present article investigates two processes of vowel elision and assimilation in Kalhori
Mehdi Fattahi
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The Diachronic Change of /xw/ Consonant Cluster in Persian, Sorani Kurdish, Hawrami, and Kalhori Kurdish: An Optimaity Theoretic Analysis [PDF]
Languages change is an inevitable phenomenon which may come with phonological implications. In Optimality Theory, first put forth by Prince and Smolensky (1991), language is seen as an inventory of universal violable constraints, the permutation of which
Mehdi Fattahi, Bahman Heydari
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The effect of Bilingualism on Language Development: An Evidence from Kalhori Kurdish and Persian Bilingual Children [PDF]
The issue with bilingualism is the level of fluency and fluency of bilingual speakers in the non-dominant language. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of bilingualism on the language development of Kurdish (Kalhori dialect) and Persian ...
Reza Hemati +2 more
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Investigating Compound Verbs in Kurdish (Kalhori Dialect) Relying on Contemporary Literary Works [PDF]
This article examines compound verbs in Kurdish, Kalhori dialect, relying on contemporary literary works. Researches show that due to the limitations of simple verbs in expressing different meanings, compound verbs fill this gap in the language; it means
Tahereh Afshar, soroosh zarei
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Investigating the borrowing of prepositions and pronouns in Kalhori Kurdish in Kurdish-Farsi bilinguals [PDF]
Language contact may have a lot of repercussions for the languages involved. Lexical or structural borrowing can be among the results of language contact.
Sayedeh Zeinab Hosseini, Habib Gowhari
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