{"id":820,"date":"2009-08-27T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp\/wordpress\/gender-in-kurdish\/"},"modified":"2009-08-27T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T16:07:42","slug":"gender-in-kurdish","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kurdishacademy.org\/?page_id=820","title":{"rendered":"Gender in Kurdish"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"D.N.D. N. MacKenzie<\/a>, BSOAS Vol XVI, 1954<\/p>\n

It is not generally accepted in European works that a distinction of grammatical gender exists in Kurdish. In the Northern group of Kurdish dialects the Izafe appears in a number of forms, e.g. a, \u0101, \u0113, \u012b, and the nominal oblique case ending as -\u0113 and -\u012b. An anlysis of these forms into a clear system, with two declensions according to grammatical gender, has been made by members of the princely family of Bedir Xan. A comparison of all the avialble tests in the light of their analysis serves to confirm the general validity of the paradigms and therefore of a distinction of grammatical gender, disguised to a varying extent by the generalization of certain forms. The history of a number of words of known gender suggests that the distiction is inherited.<\/p>\n

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\"D.N.D. N. MacKenzie<\/a>, BSOAS Vol XVI, 1954<\/p>\n

It is not generally accepted in European works that a distinction of grammatical gender exists in Kurdish. In the Northern group of Kurdish dialects the Izafe appears in a number of forms, e.g. a, \u0101, \u0113, \u012b, and the nominal oblique case ending as -\u0113 and -\u012b. An anlysis of these forms into a clear system, with two declensions according to grammatical gender, has been made by members of the princely family of Bedir Xan. A comparison of all the avialble tests in the light of their analysis serves to confirm the general validity of the paradigms and therefore of a distinction of grammatical gender, disguised to a varying extent by the generalization of certain forms. The history of a number of words of known gender suggests that the distiction is inherited.<\/p>\n

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A hithert unexplained phenomenon is the appearance in the Central Kurdish Mukrî dialect of two forms of the nominal oblique case ending, -\u0113 and -\u012b. The similarity of these forms to the corresponding Northern dialect forms is obvious. A comparison of related words in the two groups of dialects shows that in the Mukr\u012b dialect also the difference of the forms marks a distinction of grammatical gender.<\/p>\n

Many writers on Kurdish, from the time of Garzoni’s Grammatica of 1787<\/a> down to Socin’s Sprache der Kurden, have remarked on the variety of the forms in which the Izafe appears, even within a particular dilaect. Some have advanced theories concerning the phonetic context to account for the variety. It is simplest to quote Justi’s review of these theories:<\/p>\n

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\nGender in Kurdish <\/b><\/h2>\n

By D. N. MacKenzie<\/a><\/p>\n

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 
\nUniversity of London, 
\nVol. 16, No. 3 (1954), pp. 528-541 <\/p>\n

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Please read the full artcile in the attached PDF file<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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