Magin_Edward-thesis

4.4.3.5 Irregular verbs ......................................................................................83
4.4.3.6 Complex predicates (complex verbs) ....................................................86
4.4.3.7 Aspect, mood and negation...................................................................88
4.4.3.7.1 Imperfective aspect .......................................................................88
4.4.3.7.2 Negation .......................................................................................89
4.4.3.7.3 Irrealis modality............................................................................89
4.4.3.7.3.1 Modal verbs ............................................................................92
4.4.3.7.3.2 Modal adjectives .....................................................................93
4.4.3.7.3.3 Non-past temporal adverbial clauses .......................................94
4.4.3.7.3.4 Non-past conditional clauses ...................................................94
4.4.3.7.3.5 Reason and purpose clauses ....................................................95
4.4.3.7.3.6 Past tense subjunctive clauses .................................................96
4.4.3.8 Perfect tense .........................................................................................97
4.4.3.9 Past perfect tense ..................................................................................98
4.4.3.10 Passive voice ........................................................................................99
4.4.4 Adpositions ..............................................................................................100
5. Analysis of Northern Kurdish poetry .................................................................103
5.1 Introduction to the corpus.................................................................................103
5.2 The analysis .....................................................................................................104
5.3 On the phonological level.................................................................................105
5.3.1 Verse Forms.............................................................................................105
5.3.1.1 Çuarkî, the Northern Kurdish quatrain................................................105
5.3.1.2 Methnawî – the Northern Kurdish couplet...........................................109
5.3.1.3 Tercîa band ........................................................................................110
5.3.1.4 Innovative form for rhymed verse.......................................................111
5.3.2 Line syllable count ...................................................................................113
5.3.3 Rhyme......................................................................................................118
5.3.3.1 End rhyme..........................................................................................118
5.3.3.1.1 True rhyme .................................................................................119
5.3.3.1.2 Multisyllabic rhyme....................................................................119
5.3.3.1.3 Multisyllabic rhyming sequence..................................................122
5.3.3.1.4 Mosaic rhyme .............................................................................123
5.3.3.1.5 Sound play..................................................................................124
5.3.3.1.5.1 Consonant feature rhyme.......................................................125
5.3.3.1.5.2 Vowel feature rhyme.............................................................126
5.3.3.1.6 End rhyme without meter............................................................130
5.3.3.2 End rhyme in final lines of a prose poem ............................................131
5.3.3.3 Deviation from end rhyme ..................................................................132
5.3.3.4 Head rhyme, internal rhyme and interlaced rhyme ..............................132
5.4 On the syntactic level.......................................................................................136
5.4.1.1 Constituent order ................................................................................136
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