{"title":"Gorani substrate within Kurdish","authors":"Masoud Mohammadirad","doi":"10.1075/jhl.23001.moh","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n The traditional view within Kurdish linguistics is that the split between Central Kurdish (CK) and Northern\n Kurdish (NK) is mainly the result of a Gorani substrate within the former group. More recent studies refute this hypothesis,\n arguing instead that Kurdish was initially composed of two distinct but closely related subgroups and that the differences between\n CK and NK are partly due to distinct source languages and partly due to ensuing contact with neighbouring languages. This study\n aims to shed new light on the Gorani-substrate hypothesis within CK by examining a corpus-based study of the southernmost CK\n dialects located within the historical Gorani heartland. Combining recent historical accounts of language shift from Gorani to CK\n in the region with linguistic data, the paper claims that (i) Gorani borrowings and substrate features reflect different layers of\n historical contact in Southern CK dialects and (ii) the Gorani substrate has caused a split in the morphosyntactic features across\n vernaculars of CK, showcasing second-language learning in shaping the historically recent development of Southern CK dialects.","PeriodicalId":42165,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Historical Linguistics","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1075/jhl.23001.moh","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The traditional view within Kurdish linguistics is that the split between Central Kurdish (CK) and Northern
Kurdish (NK) is mainly the result of a Gorani substrate within the former group. More recent studies refute this hypothesis,
arguing instead that Kurdish was initially composed of two distinct but closely related subgroups and that the differences between
CK and NK are partly due to distinct source languages and partly due to ensuing contact with neighbouring languages. This study
aims to shed new light on the Gorani-substrate hypothesis within CK by examining a corpus-based study of the southernmost CK
dialects located within the historical Gorani heartland. Combining recent historical accounts of language shift from Gorani to CK
in the region with linguistic data, the paper claims that (i) Gorani borrowings and substrate features reflect different layers of
historical contact in Southern CK dialects and (ii) the Gorani substrate has caused a split in the morphosyntactic features across
vernaculars of CK, showcasing second-language learning in shaping the historically recent development of Southern CK dialects.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Historical Linguistics aims to publish, after peer-review, papers that make a significant contribution to the theory and/or methodology of historical linguistics. Papers dealing with any language or language family are welcome. Papers should have a diachronic orientation and should offer new perspectives, refine existing methodologies, or challenge received wisdom, on the basis of careful analysis of extant historical data. We are especially keen to publish work which links historical linguistics to corpus-based research, linguistic typology, language variation, language contact, or the study of language and cognition, all of which constitute a major source of methodological renewal for the discipline and shed light on aspects of language change. Contributions in areas such as diachronic corpus linguistics or diachronic typology are therefore particularly welcome.