A grammar of Gawraǰū Gūrānī
von Denise Bailey
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:2016-11-18
Erschienen:2018-10-01
Betreuer:Prof. Dr. Philip Kreyenbroek
Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Philip Kreyenbroek
Gutachter:Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
Gutachter:Dr. Khanna Usoyan
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Zusammenfassung
Englisch
This study is a detailed grammatical description of the Gūrānī language as used in the village of Gawraǰū, located near the town of Gahvāre in the province of Kermānšāh, Iran. Gūrānī is genetically classified as a North-West Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. Gūrānī is of particular historical significance especially as it was the language of the court of the Kurdish Ardalān principality (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries). This grammatical description of Gawraǰū Gūrānī (‘Gawraǰūyī’) is based on spoken material from a corpus of twelve texts. The study is written from primarily a functional-typological theoretical framework. It presents the main structures and word classes, as well as a selection of functional systems and the use of certain structures. One chapter focuses on issues of Information Structure. There are also observations about linguistic variation within Gūrānī.
Keywords: Gūrānī; Kurdish; North West Iranian language; grammatical description; typology; phonology; morphology; grammatical relations; information structure; language contact