Magin_Edward-thesis

List of Tables
Table 1. Important works on Kurdish literary history................................................. 6
Table 2. Themes of Northern Kurdish poetry........................................................... 48
Table 3. Contractions............................................................................................... 60
Table 4. Personal pronouns...................................................................................... 69
Table 5. Forms of the ezafe conjunctive particle ...................................................... 71
Table 6. Demonstratives. ......................................................................................... 75
Table 7. Verb suffixes ............................................................................................. 79
Table 8. Present tense irregular copulas ................................................................... 80
Table 9. Conjugations of non-past copula b ............................................................. 81
Table 10. Past tense copulas ...................................................................................... 82
Table 11. Non-possessive existential verbs (Thackston 2006:31) ............................... 84
Table 12. Irregular forms of hebû/heb in the present tense (Şirîn 2002:6) .................. 84
Table 13. Past tense subjunctive constructions........................................................... 96
Table 14. Perfect tense constructions ......................................................................... 98
Table 15. Past perfect tense constructions.................................................................. 99
Table 16. Common adpositions................................................................................ 102
Table 17. Poems using çuarkî forms ........................................................................ 109
Table 18. Rhyme scheme of stanzas in BS2............................................................. 112
Table 19. Actual or average syllable counts. ............................................................ 113
Table 20. Additional instances of multisyllabic rhyming sequence........................... 123
Table 21. Orthographic consonant chart................................................................... 125
Table 22. Deviations................................................................................................ 132
Table 23. Pronoun ellipsis. ...................................................................................... 167
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