The association between language and territory is particularly significant in terms of indigenousness. Therefore, the argument this paper to examine aspect Kurdish through interpretation political movement Turkey based on self-identification, an essential component indigeneity. Since 1990s, has been demanding mother-tongue rights with growing grassroots support. This study examines pro-Kurdish ...

the definition and typological description of the category of voice can be provided in two ways: i) at the level of semantic arguments (or semantic roles), ii) at the level of grammatical relations (or syntactic functions). the most important theoretical concept that is determined in terms of these two levels of representations and enables one to capture the rich variety of voices is that of di...

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...

This dissertation Is titled (Analyze the Islamic Encyclopedia) that addresses concept of Kurd and Kurdish Danisties in era. It is a comparative study information inside Encyclopedia collected by several orientalist. means work orientalists able to collect about Middle East general nations particular. Kurds have been addressed this encyclopedia as one nations. discusses ancient, medieval new his...

The development of basic NLP resources for minority languages is still a challenge to both formal and computational linguists. In this paper, we show how we were able to develop a medium-scale morphological lexicon for Kurmanji Kurdish in a few days time using only freely accessible resources. We also developed a preliminary POS tagger that shall be used as a pre-annotation tool for developing ...

Abstract This article investigates the activities of Kurdish women aimed at protecting and revitalising language, which include collecting publishing folklore, translating into Kurdish, writing literature in Kurdish. Throughout 20th century, countries like Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, varying degrees, imposed restrictions on use Our primary focus is Turkey because this country has been most repre...

Terminology is the science that investigates relationship between scientific concepts and linguistic expressions. The title of this paper (Translating legal terms in to Kurdish: Problem Solution). This work points out translating into Kurdish has an important nationalistic patriotic significance. Additionally, it a crucial role for strengthening status government, social relationships, policy, ...


 This chapter provides a description of noun phrases in the Ardalāni variety Sorani Kurdish. In Kurdish, surface word order within Noun Phrase is head initial and post-nominal modifiers are linked to phrase by linking element called Ezafe (Windfuhr 1989). We show that realization phonologically conditioned Ardalāni, unlike other varieties However, crucially, we definite contexts, obligato...