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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Orientalistik >> Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft >>
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Ergativity and related issues in Kurdish morphosyntax- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Haig
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich, Seminar für das Aufbaumodul 2 (6 ECTS) sowie das Vertiefungsmodul (8 ECTS) im BA-NF "Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft" sowie für das Mastermodul 1 "Systemlinguistik" im MA "General Linguistics"
Zeit und Ort: Do 12:30 - 14:00, OK8/02.04
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- The lecture will be in English.
- FlexNow-Anmeldung ab dem 01.04.
ECTS-Informationen:
- Aufbaumodul: 6 ECTS, Hausarbeit mit einem Mindestumfang von 10 Seiten
- Vertiefungsmodul: 8 ECTS, Hausarbeit mit einem Mindestumfang von 14 Seiten
- im Mastermodul 1 gilt ebenfalls eine benotete schriftliche Hausarbeit (Umfang nach Absprache) als Leistungsnachweis
- Inhalt
- ‘Kurdish’ is a cover term for a bundle of northwest Iranian languages spoken in a region centred on the intersection of today’s Turkey, Iran and Iraq. Two main varieties (or dialects) are distinguished: Northern Kurdish (also known as Kurmanjî), and Central Kurdish (Sorani). In total, there are probably 20 million speakers of Northern and Central Kurdish. In addition, a poorly-defined group known as Southern Kurdish is also recognized. Two other languages or language clusters are sometimes also included within ‘Kurdish’: Zazaki, and Gorani.
Although Kurdish is closely related to Persian (between perhaps 60-75% shared cognates in the CoBL list of basic lexicon), it has retained certain features that characterized Old and early Middle Iranian, but have been entirely lost in Persian. These include a gender distinction on nouns, a remnant inherited case marker, and a tense-based split in alignment: the agreement and case-marking associated with past transitive clauses is distinct from that found in the rest of the grammar. The latter feature has often been discussed under the heading ‘ergativity’, or ‘split ergativity’, but for various reasons it is preferable to use a more neutral label, such as ‘tense-based alignment split’.
Outside of past transitive clauses, Kurdish syntax is relatively simple, and quite similar to Persian. In this course we will take a look at some of the theoretically interesting aspects of the past transitive (‘ergative’ or ‘non-accusative’) structures in Northern and in Central Kurdish, focussing on case and agreement patterns. There is a growing literature on these topics, though of somewhat uneven quality; see Haig (2017b, in German) for a brief overview, and Haig & Öpengin (2014) for a more general overview of Kurdish.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- References (general)
Haig, Geoffrey. 2017. Linguistik des Kurdischen. In: Ludwig Paul (ed.) Handbuch der Iranistik, Band 2. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 291-297.
Haig, Geoffrey and Ergin Öpengin. 2014. Kurdish: A critical research overview. Journal of Kurdish studies 2 (2), 99-122.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 8
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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