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A grammar of Gawraǰū Gūrānī

This study is a detailed grammatical description of the GÅ«rānÄ« language as used in the village of GawrajÅ«, located near the town of Gahvāre in the province of KermānŔāh, Iran. GÅ«rānÄ« is genetically classified as a North-West Iranian language in the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. GÅ«rānÄ« is of particular historical significance especially as it was the language of the court of the Kurdish Ardalān principality (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries). This grammatical description of GawrajÅ« GÅ«rānÄ« (ā€˜GawrajÅ«yī’) is based on spoken material from a corpus of twelve texts. The study is written from primarily a functional-typological theoretical framework. It presents the main structures and word classes, as well as a selection of functional systems and the use of certain structures. One chapter focuses on issues of Information Structure. There are also observations about linguistic variation within GÅ«rānÄ«.