A grammar of Hewramî

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98554-163-8
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, 568 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1245 g

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This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Hewramî variety of Tekht, grounded in current linguistic methods. Hewramî is one of the most morphologically complex West Iranian languages. It is spoken by several thousand people in the high mountainous Hewraman region situated between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan.

This work is primarily based on a corpus of 46 narratives, collected during several trips to the Hewraman region between 2016 and 2023. This corpus was supplemented by elicitation tasks to provide a detailed account of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Hewramî. Additionally, the grammar touches on prosody and information structure. The analysis is grounded in linguistic theory, particularly informed by the functional-typological approach.

This grammar is complemented by a text collection.

Zielgruppe

Wissenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mohammadirad, Masoud

Über Autor(innen)

Mohammadirad, Masoud
Masoud Mohammadirad is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, working on the ERC-funded project /ALHOME: Echoes of Vanishing Voices in the Mountains: A Linguistic History of Minorities in the Near East/. He received his PhD from Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 in 2020. His work centres on morphology, areal typology, language contact, and spoken corpus linguistics, with particular attention to the Kurdic languages in contact with Semitic (particularly Neo-Aramaic) and Turkic. Additionally, he is actively involved in developing documentary methods and spoken corpora for under-resourced Iranian languages.