The structure of the Kurdish noun phrase

Kurdish is an Indo-Iranian language spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey (cf. The Ethnologue). It is divided into several dialects some of which are sometimes regarded as distinct languages. This paper proposes an analysis of the Kurdish noun phrase within the framework of Lexical Functional Grammar. Specifically, I will be looking at the noun phrase in the northern dialect of Kurdish called Kurmanĉi. The data I use in this paper are taken from interviews and recordings which were carried out at the University of Bochum, Germany, with a native speaker of the dialect of Mus, Turkey. As a second source, I cite sentences from Wurzel (1997), which is a Kurmanĉi introductory text book for German speakers.