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—Kurmanji Kurdish— A Reference Grammar with Selected Readings

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THE VERB<br />

§ 11. Present Copulas................................................................................... 29<br />

§ 12. ‘To Have’ and the Existential Verb Hebûn......................................... 30<br />

§ 13. The Infinitive....................................................................................... 31<br />

§ 14. The Present Tense ............................................................................... 32<br />

§ 15. Compound Verbs ................................................................................ 34<br />

§ 16. The Formation of the Present Subjunctive.......................................... 35<br />

§ 16.1 Uses of the Present Subjunctive........................................................ 37<br />

§ 16.2. The Future Tense.............................................................................. 40<br />

§ 16.2. Xwestin ‘To Want’ ........................................................................... 41<br />

§ 16.3. Karîn ‘To Be Able’ .......................................................................... 41<br />

§ 17. The Imperative .................................................................................... 42<br />

§ 17.1. The Vocative .................................................................................... 43<br />

§ 18. The Simple Past (Intransitive) ............................................................. 43<br />

§ 18.1. The Past Habitual/Progressive (Intransitive) ................................... 44<br />

§ 18.2 The Simple Past (Transitive): The Ergative...................................... 45<br />

§ 18.3 Number Agreement in Extended Ergative Verbs.............................. 48<br />

§ 18.4 The Past Tense of Xwestin ................................................................ 49<br />

§ 18.5. Loss of Ergativity............................................................................. 49<br />

§ 19. The Past Participle............................................................................... 49<br />

§ 20. The Present Perfect Tense (Intransitive) ............................................. 50<br />

§ 20.1. The Present Perfect Tense (Transitive/Ergative) ............................. 50<br />

§ 21. The Past Perfect Tense (Intransitive) .................................................. 52<br />

§ 21.1. The Past Perfect Tense (Transitive/Ergative) .................................. 53<br />

§ 21.2. The Past Perfect Tense of Karîn and Zanîn ..................................... 57<br />

§ 22. The Past Subjunctive........................................................................... 55<br />

§ 23. The Future Perfect Tense .................................................................... 56<br />

§ 24. The Modal of Karîn ............................................................................ 57<br />

§ 25. The Irrealis Mood................................................................................ 57<br />

§ 25.1. The Past Conditional........................................................................ 58<br />

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