Masoud Mohammadirad
List of John Benjamins publications in which Masoud Mohammadirad is involved.
Articles
2025 Gorani substrate within Kurdish: Evidence from southern dialects of Central Kurdish Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:3, pp. 426–462 | Article
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… read more
Demorphologization and remorphologization: The loss of an imperfective prefix except as a placeholder of stress, the last vestige of a negation marker in Hewramî Journal of Historical Linguistics: Online-First Articles | Article
The negation marker in Hewramî, mé-, originated as a marker of imperfective aspect. A series of regular sound changes setting Hewramî apart from its closely related sisters caused the demorphologization of the original prefix. The subsequent morphologization of stress accent caused the… read more