Abstract
Spoken in the city of Kermanshah and environs in western Iran, Kermāšāni is a variety of Southern Kurdish, which has received far less scholarly attention than Central Kurdish (Sorani) or Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji). This study aims to elucidate some lesser-known aspects of Southern Kurdish by providing a systematic sketch grammar of Kermāšāni based on newly collected fieldwork data. One particularly challenging area explored is verb morphology, especially how stems ending in vowels exhibit distinct conjugation classes. The study investigates the interdependence among passive past stems, the imperfect, and the past subjunctive, all marked by the formant -yâ-. Additionally, three appended texts offer insights into the sociolinguistic aspects of Kermāšāni and discuss challenges in adapting dialect into classical Persian prosody.
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