Forthcoming: A grammar of Hewramî

This book is a comprehensive grammatical description of the Hewramî variety of Tekht, grounded in current linguistic methods. Hewramî is one of the most morphologically complex West Iranian languages. It is spoken by several thousand people in the high mountainous Hewraman region situated between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan.

This work is primarily based on a corpus of 46 narratives, collected during several trips to the Hewraman region between 2016 and 2023. This corpus was supplemented by elicitation tasks to provide a detailed account of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Hewramî. Additionally, the grammar touches on prosody and information structure. The analysis is grounded in linguistic theory, particularly informed by the functional-typological approach.

The grammar is accompanied by a set of 15 fully-glossed narratives (approximately 10000 words) from which most linguistic examples are drawn. These narrative texts serve as a valuable resource for corpus-based research on a lesser-researched language. The book also includes a Hewramî-English glossary (containing all extant forms in the corpus), an English-Hewramî glossary, and a verb list.