Publications

Research in historical linguistics, Iranian languages, and language documentation, with a focus on Kurdish and other under-documented varieties.

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Journal Article

Demorphologization and Remorphologization: the loss of an imperfective prefix except as a placeholder of stress, the last vestige of a negation marker in Hewramî

Shuan Osman Karim and Masoud Mohammadirad•Journal of Historical Linguistics

Goraniphonological changeactualisationverbal morphologymorphologizationdemorphologizationcheshirization

2025

Journal Article

The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranic languages

Masoud Mohammadirad and Shuan Osman Karim•Language Dynamics and Change•pp. 1-87

analogymarkednesshomophonyneutralizationsound changeIranian LanguagesKurdishSyncretismVerbal Morphology

Journal Article

The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî

Masoud Mohammadirad and Shuan Osman Karim•Linguistics•pp. 1265–1292

analogical extensionGoranîphonological changeverbal morphologycyclic change

Journal Article

Historical Linguistics for High School Students: The Ohio Experience Pedagogical Linguistics

Brian Joseph, Shuan Osman Karim, and Clint Awai-Jennings•Pedagogical Linguistics

historical linguisticsMetro Early College High SchoolSLIYSsummer program

2024

Book Chapter

Pattern Borrowing in The Southern Kurdish Zone

Shuan Osman Karim•Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context, eds. Shuan Osman Karim and Saloumeh Gholami. Berlin: De Gruyter

KurdishGoraniContactConvergence

Book Chapter

Introduction

Shuan Osman Karim and Saloumeh Gholami•Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context, eds. Shuan Osman Karim and Saloumeh Gholami. Berlin: De Gruyter

GoraniLakiKurdishNeo-AramaicDiachronyLanguage ContactLiterature

Book Chapter

Can insignifcant evidence yield a signifcant result? sub-grouping Southern Kurdish based on imperfective allomorphs

Shuan Osman Karim•Current issues in Kurdish linguistics II, eds. Songül Gündogdu and Agnes Grond. Praesens: Wien

Kurdishimperfectivemultiple exponenseprogressive to imperfective cycleSound Change

Book

Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context

Shuan Osman Karim and Saloumeh Gholami (eds.)•Berlin: De Gruyter

GoraniLakiKurdishNeo-AramaicDiachronyLanguage ContactLiteratureendangered languagesdocumentation

2023

Journal Article

The heuristic of Economy and Proto-Iranian stop clusters

Shuan Osman Karim•Chatreššar•pp. 261–290

historical phonologyComparative MethodIndo-Iranianlaryngealsstop clusterseconomydirectionalityrelative chronology

Book Chapter

Ezafe and the Article

Shuan Osman Karim•Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, eds. Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

EzafeIraniandefinitenessnominal morphologytypology

2022

Journal Article

Akkadian [e]

Shuan Osman Karim•Journal of the American Oriental Society•pp. 177–191

AkkadianSemitic languageshistorical phonologyvowel raisinggutturalsvoicing assimilationProto-Semitic

Book Chapter

An applicative analysis of Soranî "absolute prepositions"

Shuan Osman Karim and Ali Salehi•Neglected syntactic functions and non-syntactic functions of Applicative Morphology, eds. Sara Pacchiarotti and Fernando Zúñiga. Berlin: De Gruyter

applicativemorphologyCentral Kurdishdiachrony

2021

Dissertation

The synchrony and diachrony of New Western Iranian nominal morphosyntax

Shuan Osman Karim•The Ohio State University

Iranian languagesnominal morphologyezafe constructioncase markingKurdishZazakihistorical linguisticscategorial grammarmorphosyntax

For a complete list of presentations and works in progress, please see my CV.