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Poetics of modernity and nationalism: Revisiting the emergence of modern Kurdish poetry

open access: yesLiterature Compass, Volume 19, Issue 7, July 2022., 2022
Abstract The emergence of modern Kurdish poetry marks a period of great significance in the history of Kurdish literature since it witnessed the advent of modernity, the rise of Kurdish nationalism, the fall of the Persian and Ottoman Empires, and the creation of the Middle East with no country for Kurds.
Farangis Ghaderi
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Dialectal Layers in West Iranian: A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Approach to Linguistic Relationships1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 1-31, March 2022., 2022
Abstract This paper addresses a series of complex and unresolved issues in the historical phonology of West Iranian languages, (Persian, Kurdish, Balochi, and other languages), which display a high degree of irregular, non‐Lautgesetzlich behaviour.
Chundra A. Cathcart
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Footnotes on a Parthian sound change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
International audienceThe treatment of Proto-Iranian *θw (Proto-Indo-European *tw) is one of the isoglosses distinguishing Middle Persian from Parthian and thus important for Western Iranian dialectology.
Korn, Agnes
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Language attitudes and religion: Kurdish Alevis in the UK [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
In this article I report on results of a Matched Guise Tests (MGT) study investigating attitudes towards Bohtan (BHKr) and Maraş Kurmanji (MRKr) spoken among the UK diaspora.
Yilmaz, B., Yilmaz, B.
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Overt and Covert Subjects in Uyghur: Not the same thing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Overt nominative-marked indexicals in Uyghur attitude reports are known to undergo obligatory shifting and trigger matching agreements. This paper challenges the prevailing view that the covert subject is parallel to its overt nominative counterpart.
Li, Xiang, Portner, Paul
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A perceptual dialectological approach to linguistic variation and spatial analysis of Kurdish Varieties [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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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An Emotional Economy of Mundane Objects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Cataloged from PDF version of article.This article illuminates the affective potentialities of objects. We examine the circulation of Kurdish music cassettes in Turkey during the restrictive and strife-laden period of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. We find
Ger, G., Kuruoglu, A.
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Defining the Nation: Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This article examines Kurdish historiography in Turkey in the 1990s. It centres on the question how the national community is historicised via central myths, especially for the pre-Islamic periods.
Hirschler, Konrad
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