The current paper aims to investigate different morphosyntactic realization of the constituents (case vs. adposition) and their linear ordering (preverbal vs. postverbal) in a Kurmanji clause through an event structure analysis. Based on the data from Muş Kurmanji (MK), it discusses that there is a relation between the morphological form of the constituents and their status as encoded in the verb's meaning in MK; that is, structural participants are realized with case morphology while constant participants are introduced with adpositions. It further argues that the reason why MK makes a distinction in the linear ordering of structural participants is indeed a word-order property (VG) retained from proto-Kurdish and further constrained by the morphosyntactic properties of Kurmanji.
This study aims to contribute to the dialectology studies of Kurmanji Kurdish in broader sense by presenting some remarks on vowels and consonants in the variety spoken in Muş region of Turkey. Based on the articulation data, it is argued that Kurmanji has different sounds which haven't been mentioned so far. Investigating the vocalic and consonantal sounds in Muş Kurmanji, the current study has two claims: (i) Muş Kurmanji has ten vocalic sounds even though eight vowels are used in standard Kurdish orthography, and (ii) there are labial consonants in this language such as
Studies on Ezafe demonstrate that it displays considerable cross-linguistic variation, making it difficult to propose a unified analysis. Our goal is to achieve such unification by investigating the properties of Ezafe in two typologically different languages; Northern Kurdish/Kurmanji Kurdish (Iranian) and Turkish (Turkic). Taking Ezafe as a linking feature that marks dependency between the head and the non-head elements within the nominal domain, we propose that the variation can be explained with the head directionality of the language and the phase domain where the head noun lands in/remains. This allows us to account for data that were problematic for previous accounts and to extend the range of data to languages (specifically, Turkish) that have not been analyzed as Ezafe languages before.
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