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I have encountered in the corpus one other type of SRM (or possibly two) that I
have never read about in any other research on Northern Kurdish. Due to a lack of data, I
must leave the subject open for future research. 45
4.4.2.5 Numbers, quantifiers and intensifiers
Numbers, quantifiers and intensifiers that directly modify a noun never get added
by means of an ezafe conjunctive particle but come before the noun, as the following
examples show. In (33) the number du, ‘two,’ modifies nan, ‘bread.’ In (34) the
quantifier gelek, ‘much’ or ‘a lot,’ modifies îprax, a traditional food of Kurds and other
nearby cultures.
(33) Min du nan xwar-in
1O two bread eat.PST-3PL
‘I ate two (loaves of) bread.’
(34) Rezbar gelek îprax-ê çê-di-kit
Rezbar much îprax 46 -OBL.F make-IPFV-do.PRS-3SG
‘Rezbar is making a lot of îprax.’
4.4.2.6 Demonstratives
Demonstratives also have both direct and oblique cases, as shown in Table 6.
When a demonstrative is to be used as a determiner, it must be in the oblique case. The
oblique case demonstratives for near, ‘this,’ and far, ‘that,’ have both masculine and
feminine forms.
45 For those interested in the subject, I would refer you to line 60 of Sindî’s Gerîanek. The SRM for further
research is the -î on the word ev. According to my consultant it has to do with the fact that the thing you’re
talking about belongs to someone else, not yourself.
46 A traditional dish, also called dolma, made of cabbage, grape leaves and other vegetables that are stuffed
with rice, spices and sometimes meat.