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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.With over 35 million speakers across Kurdistan and in diasporic communities, Kurdish constitutes a significant group within the Iranic languages, and figures in multiple minority-language contexts. The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics is the first comprehensive English reference dedicated to the Kurdish language and its scholarly study. It contains twenty-seven chapters written by more than forty experts worldwide, covering major Kurdish dialects, their structural features, and the social, political, and cultural contexts that influence their use and study. The Handbook includes information on the geographic distribution, updated speaker statistics, and revised maps showing Northern (Kurmanji), Central (Sorani), Southern, Laki, Gorani/Hawrami, and Zazaki varieties. The book is organized into five main sections and combines detailed descriptive research, including phonology, morphology, syntax, and historical change, with studies on language contact, standardization, policy, teaching, lexicography, corpus development, mapping, and heritage language preservation. A vital resource for scholars and advanced students in linguistics, Kurdish studies, and Middle Eastern studies, the Handbook serves as both a classroom guide and a reference for researchers, policymakers, and cultural practitioners seeking a comprehensive, current overview of Kurdish language research.

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural and Typological Variation in Kurdish and stored in the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects online resource, as well as on additional data sources. The chapters address issues in lexicon, phonology, and morpho-syntax including nominal case, tense and aspect categories, pronominal clitics, adpositions, word order (with special reference to post-predicate constituents) and connectivity and complex clauses. The materials that inform the analysis consist of a systematic questionnaire-based elicitation covering key features of variation in lexicon and morpho-syntax, and an accompanying corpus of free speech recordings, collected in over 120 locations across the Kurdish-speaking regions in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and covering mainly the dialects of Northern and Central Kurdish (Kurmani-Bahdini and Sorani), with some consideration of Southern Kurdish. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in fields such as linguistics, linguistic typology, Iranian linguistics and linguistics of the Middle East, and dialectology.

This book offers the first comparative discussion of variation in selected areas of structure in the dialects of Kurdish. The contributions draw on data collected as part of the project on Structural and Typological Variation in Kurdish and stored in the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects online resource, as well as on additional data sources. The chapters address issues in lexicon, phonology, and morpho-syntax including nominal case, tense and aspect categories, pronominal clitics, adpositions, word order (with special reference to post-predicate constituents) and connectivity and complex clauses. The materials that inform the analysis consist of a systematic questionnaire-based elicitation covering key features of variation in lexicon and morpho-syntax, and an accompanying corpus of free speech recordings, collected in over 120 locations across the Kurdish-speaking regions in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran and covering mainly the dialects of Northern and Central Kurdish (Kurmani-Bahdini and Sorani), with some consideration of Southern Kurdish. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in fields such as linguistics, linguistic typology, Iranian linguistics and linguistics of the Middle East, and dialectology.