case and agreement in sorani dialects of sanandaj and and bane: a minimalist approach

in the recent theory of generative grammar there are two major views on case assignment. the standard chomskyan view stats that case is assigned by the grammatical head to the closest np through an agreement relationship (baker, 2010). in this approach case has a purely syntactic notion as a case assigner and is directly related to structural cases and structural relations of case receiving nps. in the second view case assigning takes place by corpus rules in the phonological component. in this approach there is no direct relationship between case assignment and agreement, and the morphological hierarchy assigns the case for nps. in this article based on data from sorani kurdish dialects of sanandaj and bane and comparing the similarities and differences of these two varieties of kurdish, it is shown that different varieties of sorani kurdish follow different approaches in their case assigning system.