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Wusleto Heqîqî û Fîraqo Mecazî yan Fîraqo Heqîqî û Wusleto Mecazî; Edebîyatê Klasîk yê Zazakî de Terenumê Wuslet û Fîraqî

open access: yesMukaddime
Wuslet û fîraq tenya mîyanê edebîyatî de di hebî mefhûmî bingeyînan nê, heman dem de di rastîyê heyatî îfade kenê. Nê her di mefhûmî ancax pê reyde bêrê fikirîyayene mana danê.
Ahmet Kırkan
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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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Language, Religion, and Emplacement of Zazaki Speakers [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 2019
Speakers of the Zazaki language present an ongoing and contested dilemma regarding their relationship and place within mainstream Kurdish identity. Academic scholarship on Zazaki speakers, and more specifically, their identity is not only scarce but often fails to provide a solid discussion on (ethnic) identification processes.
openaire   +1 more source

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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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
wiley   +1 more source

Making fun of the standard tongue: Enregisterment, social difference, and Kurdish language humor

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract This article analyzes how humor around contrasts between standard and non‐standard Northern, i.e., Kurmanji, Kurdish spoken in Turkey contributes to the enregisterment of standard Kurdish, arguing that Kurdish language jokes promote the recognition and, to different degrees, uptake of standardized linguistic repertoires among differently ...
Patrick C. Lewis
wiley   +1 more source

A never‐ending story of an identity crisis or a creative reformulation of an Alevi‐mindset? What the case of Alevi youth in the German diaspora suggest today?

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 48-64, April 2025.
Abstract The Alevi movement, originating more than three decades ago in Turkey and the Western European diaspora, has led to significant social and cultural shifts within Alevi communities. This movement witnessed the emergence of Alevi associations, increased religio‐political activities, and a fervent search for a redefined Alevi identity.
Ahmet Kerim Gültekin
wiley   +1 more source

Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

open access: yesSyntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Harmonic word order constraints are not created equal: the final-over-final constraint as an epiphenomenon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The Final-over-Final Constraint (FOFC, Holmberg 2000, Biberauer et al 2007, 2008) is a descriptive generalisation stating that a head-initial phrase cannot be dominated by a head-final phrase.
Philip, J
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Taybetmendîyên Şêwezarê Şêxbizinî

open access: yesNubihar Akademi
Şêxbizinî piştî zarên kurmancî û zazakî şêwezarê kurdî yê sêyem e ku li Tirkîyeyê tê axaftin. Şêxbizinîyên ku bi vî şêwezarî diaxivin, di sedsala 16em da di encama milmilaneya Osmanî û Sefewîyan da ji nav sînorê Îrana wê demê ber bi desthilata Osmanî koç
Zülküf Ergün, Mehmet Emin Özgür
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