Publications

Karim, Shuan Osman & Masoud Mohammadirad. "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.

Khan, Geoffrey, Paul Noorlander, Katherine Hodgson, Masoud Mohammadirad, Shuan Osman Karim, Ergin Öpengin, Eleanor Coghill, Mahîr Dogan, Murad Suleymanov, Dorota Molin, Geoffrey Haig, & Parvin Mahmoudveysi. In press. North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic in the Context of the Languages of Western Asia. Contact and Multilingualism. Berlin: Language Science Press.

Karim, Shuan Osman. In press. "Absolute Prepositions." In The Oxford Handbook of Kurdish Linguistics, eds. by Jaffer Sheyholislami, Geoffrey Haig, Hayder Khezri, Saleh Akin, & Ergin Öpengin, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Karim, Shuan Osman & Masoud Mohammadirad. In press. "The category of copula in Goranî varieties: Grammaticalisation, variation, and contact." Journal of Iranian Linguistics.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2026. "De-collective plurals and the development of slot competition between definiteness and plurality: Evidence from Iranic." Lingua 341:104243.

Mohammadirad, Masoud & Shuan Osman Karim. 2025. "The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranic languages." Language Dynamics and Change 15(1):1–87.

Joseph, Brian D., Shuan Osman Karim, & Clint K. Awai-Jennings. 2025. "Historical Linguistics for High School Students: The Ohio Experience." Pedagogical Linguistics 6(2):155–174.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2025. "Contact Across the Iranian World: Curious Convergences between Kurdish and Balochi." Journal of Iranian Linguistics 2(2):6–41.

Mohammadirad, Masoud & Shuan Osman Karim. 2025. "The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî." Linguistics 63(5):1265–1292.

Karim, Shuan Osman & Saloumeh Gholami. 2024. "Introduction: Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context." In Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context, eds. by Shuan Osman Karim & Saloumeh Gholami, 1–42, Berlin: De Gruyter.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2024. "Pattern borrowing/convergence in the Southern Kurdish Zone." In Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context, eds. by Shuan Osman Karim & Saloumeh Gholami, 199–228, Berlin: De Gruyter.

Shuan Osman Karim & Saloumeh Gholami (eds.). 2024. Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context. Berlin: De Gruyter.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2024. "Can insignificant evidence yield a significant result?: Sub-grouping Southern Kurdish based on imperfective allomorphs." In Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics II, eds. by Agnes Grond & Songül Gündoğdu, 7–38, Wien: Praesens Verlag.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. "Ezafe and the Article." In Advances in Iranian Linguistics II, eds. by Simin Karimi, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri, & Jian Gang Ngui, 130–153, Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Ergin Öpengin, Masoud Mohammadirad. Pronominal Clitics Across Kurdish: Areal Distribution, Structural Variation, and Diachrony. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Erik Anonby. Phonological Variation in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Geoffrey Haig. Post-Predicate Constituents in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Jaffer Sheyholislami, Rahim Surkhi. Lexical Variation and Semantic Change in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Maximilian Kinzler. Adpositions in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Sara Belelli. A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Songül Gündoğdu. Case in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. "The heuristic of Economy and Proto-Iranian stop clusters." Chatreššar 2(2):5–18.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Yaron Matras, Geoffrey Haig, Ergin Öpengin (eds.). Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2023. Review of Yaron Matras. The Typology of Connectivity and Complex Constructions in Kurdish Dialects. Abstracta Iranica 45.

Karim, Shuan Osman & Ali Salehi. 2022. "An applicative analysis of Soranî "absolute prepositions"." In Neglected syntactic functions and non-syntactic functions of Applicative Morphology, eds. by Sara Pacchiarotti & Fernando Zúñiga, 263–298, Berlin: De Gruyter.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2022. "Akkadian [e]." Journal of the American Oriental Society 142(1):177–191.

Karim, Shuan Osman. 2021. The synchrony and diachrony of New Western Iranian nominal morphosyntax. PhD dissertation, The Ohio State University.

Elsner, Micha, Andrea D. Sims, Alexander Erdmann, Antonio Hernandez, Evan Jaffe, Lifeng Jin, Martha Booker Johnson, Shuan Karim, David L. King, Luana Lamberti Nunes, Byung-Doh Oh, Nathan Rasmussen, Cory Shain, Stephanie Antetomaso, Kendra V. Dickinson, Noah Diewald, Michelle McKenzie, & Symon Stevens-Guille. 2019. "Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute?." Journal of Language Modelling 7(1):53–98.