A Grammar of Gawraǰū Gūrānī

The aim of this study, then, is to describe the grammar of Gawraǰū Gūrānī and contribute to its comprehensive documentation while it is still actively used by the people of the community. The study also attempts to fill one of the gaps in Iranian linguistic studies by supplying a detailed grammatical description of a Gūrānī variety based on a corpus of spoken texts and employing a theoretical framework of functional-typological linguistics. The study is also intended to contribute material to the historical and comparative research of Gūrānī as well as of the larger group of Kurdish and other Iranian languages. It is hoped, too, that this study would serve as a resource for the maintenance and preservation of Gawraǰūyī and other forms of Gūrānī. The description presented here is a continuation of the research published in Mahmoudveysi et al. (2012). That volume contains a grammatical sketch of Gawraǰūyī (fifty-one pages), including introductory descriptions of phonology, basic word classes and structures, and a short section on selected features of syntax. It also contains nine texts and a lexicon of approximately 1600 items. In comparison, the current study also contains a phoneme chart, a presentation of word classes, and a basic description of clause structure and reflexivity.