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 Function of Common Mythological Motifs in a Kurdish Folk Narrative and an Excerpt from Klidar
Myths express human aspirations and fears. Literary and folk texts in the depth of their thinking do not shy away from mythical themes. Myths, through their narrative function, reveal the themes of human archetype in the various contexts narratives.
Hadi Dehghani Yazdeli
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ASPIRATION IN ENGLISH, ARABIC AND KURDISH [PDF]
The sound systems of both Standard Arabic (SA) and Kurdish (Bahdinani dialect) have been worked out, with varying degrees of emphasis on certain features (i.e.
Ameen H. Al-Bamerni
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Turkey's Kurdish movement and the AKP's Kurdish opening: Kurdish Spring or fall? [PDF]
Casier, Marlies +2 more
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Reflection of the Working Class in Kurdish Novel with Reference to - Haras and Shar -
This study is entitled “Reflection of the Working Class in Kurdish Novel with Reference to Haras and Shar”. It attempts to discover the features of the working class charaters and proletariat in two examples of Kurdish novels of the 1980s.
Sarkawt Sahdi Qadir +1 more
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Incorporation in Ardalani Kurdish: A Competition between Syntax and Morphology
This study examines the process of incorporation in Kurdish with emphasis on recognizing the modular nature of this process in the context of syntactic-morphological theoretical debate.
Shahin Ahmadishad +3 more
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Indigenous knowledge of the Kurdish calendar and chronology [PDF]
A typical calendar among the Kurdish people from the perspective of: the Naming the months, symbolism, the numerous occasions, the consistency with nature and climate, the mythical and religious ideas, and ...
Malek Shoaei
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Nestorian-Kurdish Social Relations in the Context of Narrative Theory
This article examined the social relations of Nestorians and Kurds in the period from the 19th century to the First World War. The data used in the study were obtained through semi-structured interviews, which were conducted in Hakkari city.
Emel Topcu, Engin Korkmaz
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Unregulated Desires: Anomie, the “Rainbow Underclass” and Second-generation Alevi Kurdish Gangs in London [PDF]
This article offers a case study of the adaptation strategies of a section of second-generation young male Alevi Kurds in London and the social conditions which make some of them more prone to join gangs and to reject mainstream institutions in their ...
Cetin, U., Cetin, U.
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Polysemy of Particle in Kurdish Language
Particle is one of the categories which belongs to functional words of language. One of the features of particle is that they change the meaning of a sentence. This feature depends on the linguistic environment in which they occur.
Bayan Mala Hamadameen, Talib Husen Ali
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