—Kurmanji Kurdish— A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings

PHONOLOGY
CONTENTS
Alphabet and sounds ...................................................................................... 1
The aspirated and unaspirated stops............................................................... 3
Stress .............................................................................................................. 4
Orthographic variants..................................................................................... 4
Doubled consonants ....................................................................................... 4
The furtive i....................................................................................................4
SUBSTANTIVES
§ 1. The Noun................................................................................................. 7
§ 1.1. Gender.................................................................................................. 7
§ 1.2. Inflection .............................................................................................. 7
§ 2. Demonstrative Adjectives and Her ‘Every’ ............................................ 9
§ 3. The Indefinite State ............................................................................... 10
§ 4. The Primary Construct Case ................................................................. 11
§ 4.1 The Adjectival Construct .................................................................... 12
§ 5. The Secondary Construct: The Construct Extender.............................. 14
§ 6. Synopsis of Noun States of Cases......................................................... 16
§ 7. Personal Pronouns................................................................................. 17
§ 7.1 The Reflexive Pronoun Xwe................................................................ 19
§ 8. Prepositions, Postpositions, Circumpositions ....................................... 19
§ 8.1. Contracted Prepositions ..................................................................... 21
§ 9. Numbers ................................................................................................ 21
§ 9.1. Ordinal Numbers................................................................................ 24
§ 9.2. Months of the Year and Days of the Week ........................................ 25
§ 9.3. Telling Time....................................................................................... 26
§ 10. Comparative and Superlative Adjectives............................................ 26
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