2025-08-05

A Soran University Lecturer Publishes a Book

Shukri Ahmad Mohammed, a lecturer in the Kurdish Department of the Faculty of Education at Soran University, has published a book titled (The Ordering of Adverbial Clauses in Kurdish from a Functional-Typological Perspective).
This book is originally a master's thesis in which the author analyzes the ordering of adverbial clauses in the Kurdish language, relying on the functional-typological theory.
The book aims to identify the ordering of adverbial clauses in Kurdish and determine their primary position by utilizing factors such as iconicity, processing, syntactic length, discourse, and meaning from a functional-typological perspective. In other words, it examines whether these types of clauses appear before or after the main clause due to the aforementioned factors.
Adverbial clauses are subordinate clauses that appear in complex sentences and clarify part or all of the main clause. These clauses in Kurdish are divided into several types, such as adverbial clauses of time, place, cause, condition, purpose, result, measure, and contrast, which can appear either before or after the main clause. Several typological factors are considered in determining the primary position of these adverbial clause types from a functional-typological perspective. According to the theories of Holger Diessel (1996, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2019), these factors play a significant role in organizing and determining the primary position of adverbial clause types.

Note: This book was published by Soran Directorate of Media, Printing, and Publishing.

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