The effect of informative structure, grammatical role and syntactic structure on the postposing in the Sorani language.

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1 Instructor. Department of English language and Linguistics Faculty of Literature and Languages. University of Kurdistan.

2 Instructor .Department of English Language and Linguistics. Faculty of Literature and Languages. University of Kurdistan.

3 Department of English Language and Linguistics Faculty of Literature and Languages. University of Kurdistan.

Abstract

The purpose of this corpus-oriented research is to investigate the effect of informative structure, grammatical function syntactic structure, verb type, grammatical weight and definiteness on the process of postposing in the spoken Sorani Kurdish language. Since the Kurdish language is an Iranian language like the Persian, it is a head-last language and verb ending sentences are considered unmarked but in the spoken language there is a greater tendency to produce marked sentences and postposing some constructions can be seen. In this research through relying on spoken corpus of Kurdish language and databased analysis, we have investigated the effective factors known by other researchers about the postposing process in the Kurdish language. This research shows that in Sorani spoken language, prepositional phrase constituent in indirect object and place adverb syntactic role with new informative structure move to after verb position and postposing occurs. In the case of predicate postposing, the type of copular verb is an effective factor. The direct object, subject, adverb of quantity and adverb of quality do not follow this principle except in limited cases that can be ignored . Grammatical weight and definiteness factors do not have effective role in postposing in this language.

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Research in Western Iranian Languages and Dialects

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Available Online from 19 February 2025

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