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Gorani in Its Historical and Linguistic Context.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karim, Shuan Osman.
- Series:
- Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] Series
- Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] Series ; v.41
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2024.
- Summary:
- Gorani refers to under-documented, endangered varieties spoken in a cluster within the Zagros mountains (Iran/Iraq). These varieties possess conservative features of importance to linguists. However, their study has been plagued by nomenclature and taxonomy issues. Traditional names for these languages have been supplanted first by orientalists' prescriptions and then by their linguist heirs. Inaccurate terminology has sewn discord between speaker communities, disturbing the sociolinguistic landscape. This volume represents the state of the art of Gorani's historical and socio-linguistics, documentation, and literature, as well as an effort to aid the "decolonization" of Gorani linguistics.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- I Introduction
- 1 Gorani in its historical and linguistic context
- II Literary Gorani
- 2 Examining the structural differences and similarities between literary Gorani and Hawrami through the lens of diglossia
- 3 The Gūrānī variety of Bzɫāna and the literary language of Saydī
- 4 Judeo-Gūrānī: Tracing the emergence of a literary corpus
- III Language contact
- 5 Gorani influence on NENA
- 6 Pattern borrowing/convergence in the Southern Kurdish Zone
- IV Related languages
- 7 The Laki of the Ahl-e Haqq community in Češin: Some morphosyntactic features
- 8 Problems in Zazakî nomenclature
- Subject index
- Author index
- Language index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- ISBN:
- 9783111168852
- 3111168859
- OCLC:
- 1462056759
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