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This book presents a documentation and analysis of Harsini, the language variety spoken by the people of Harsin, a small urban centre located in south-east Kermānshāh Province, western Iran. The main features of phonology and morphosyntax... more
This book presents a documentation and analysis of Harsini, the language variety spoken by the people of Harsin, a small urban centre located in south-east Kermānshāh Province, western Iran. The main features of phonology and morphosyntax are outlined, and an extensive corpus of transcribed spoken texts, recorded in situ, is also provided, together with a lexicon. The book also includes comparative notes and discussion of the place of Harsini within Laki, and its relationship to Southern Kurdish. The sound files from the text corpus are available online at https://multicast.aspra.uni-bamberg.de/resources/kurdish/#laki
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Il presente libro si configura come una raccolta di saggi di linguistica e filologia iranica, sette in tutto, seguiti da una bibliografia generale, fortemente interconnessi per contenuti e interessi, seppure indipendenti nella loro... more
Il presente libro si configura come una raccolta di saggi di linguistica e filologia iranica, sette in tutto, seguiti da una bibliografia generale, fortemente interconnessi per contenuti e interessi, seppure indipendenti nella loro struttura.
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The bulk of studies on the verbal system of Kurdish address alignment and agreement patterns in past transitive constructions, while comparatively little research has been devoted to a general description of Tense, Aspect, and Mood (TAM)... more
The bulk of studies on the verbal system of Kurdish address alignment and agreement patterns in past transitive constructions, while comparatively little research has been devoted to a general description of Tense, Aspect, and Mood (TAM) distinctions across Kurdish varieties. Starting from the observation that Southern Kurdish (SK) dialects seem to differ in the structure and functioning of certain sections of their verbal system—both reciprocally and in comparison with Northern Kurdish (NK) and Central Kurdish (CK)—this chapter provides an analysis of the subset of tense/aspect forms used in past-time domains, intending to define regional variation and continuity in their formal and functional properties. Comparative remarks will help contextualize preliminary findings on SK in a broader, cross-cluster framework.
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The tales of the type “Innocent Persecuted or Unfortunate Heroine” have long been recognised as one of the most characteristic genres of female storytelling worldwide. However, scholarly accounts on the diffusion of this kind of fairy... more
The tales of the type “Innocent Persecuted or Unfortunate Heroine” have long been recognised as one of the most characteristic genres of female storytelling worldwide. However, scholarly accounts on the diffusion of this kind of fairy tales in the oral traditions of the Iranian cultural area are few and mostly based on Persian language materials (cf. Elwell-Sutton 1969). This contribution aims to complement and elaborate on previous observations on the form, symbolic dimensions and traditional contexts of performing this peculiar group of narratives (including ATU 311, 327A, 403, 408, 480, 706C, 707 and 510A/B) through the comparative evaluation and analysis of a folktale corpus collected in Southern Kurdish-speaking regions of western Iran and eastern Iraq.
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The following pages contain a selection of Balochi nautical terms extracted from the lexical archive of the Balochi Etymological Dictionary Project, pertaining in particular to the lexical subset indicating boats, ships and other kind of... more
The following pages contain a selection of Balochi nautical terms extracted from the lexical archive of the Balochi Etymological Dictionary Project, pertaining in particular to the lexical subset indicating boats, ships and other kind of vessels.
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The present contribution is a first step of an ongoing investigation on the conceptualisation of “stupidity, foolishness, madness” in Iranian, as a selected case-study for an assessment of the controversial role played by... more
The present contribution is a first step of an ongoing investigation on the conceptualisation of “stupidity, foolishness, madness” in Iranian, as a selected case-study for an assessment of the controversial role played by phonosemantic/ideophonic paradigms in lexical production and areal diffusion of cognate words. The discussion will challenge the commonly- accepted interpretation of the Young Avestan term mūra - as prototypically referring to mental/cognitive impairment, based on a review of the attempts at etymological reconstruction and a closer scrutiny of disregarded evidence from Middle and New Iranian.
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Laki is a Northwest Iranian language spoken by both settled and nomadic people in the area of west Iran unofficially known as Lakestān, wedged between the Kurdish and Lori ethnolinguistic continua. This paper presents a popular legend in... more
Laki is a Northwest Iranian language spoken by both settled and nomadic people in the area of west Iran unofficially known as Lakestān, wedged between the Kurdish and Lori ethnolinguistic continua. This paper presents a popular legend in the Kākāvandi variety of Laki, giving an interesting insight into folk beliefs and practices related to the emāmzāde of Šāhzāde Moḥammad, a shrine located in the rural village of Darb-e Gonbad (Northern Lorestān). The text is accompanied by concise dialectological and lexical notes.
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In the history of research on the ‘Cinderella Cycle’ (ATU 510), the variants pertaining to the subtype B (e.g. L’orza, Peau d’Asne, Cap o’ Rushes, Allerleirauh, Maria di legno) have received much less attention than those of the subtype A... more
In the history of research on the ‘Cinderella Cycle’ (ATU 510), the variants pertaining to the subtype B (e.g. L’orza, Peau d’Asne, Cap o’ Rushes, Allerleirauh, Maria di legno) have received much less attention than those of the subtype A (e.g. La gatta Cennerentola, Cendrillon, Aschenputtel). This contribution presents two versions of ATU 510B (Nameyna ‘the felt-made girl’ and Čuwīna ‘the wooden girl’) collected in the Southern Kurdish-speaking region of West Iran, aiming to provide new material for the study of this tale type in the narrative traditions of the Iranian world.
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This contribution provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the dialectology of Southern Kurdish (hereafter SK). The introductory paragraphs discuss the concept of SK, survey existing sources and briefly address core... more
This contribution provides an overview of the current state of knowledge on the dialectology of Southern Kurdish (hereafter SK). The introductory paragraphs discuss the concept of SK, survey existing sources and briefly address core issues of terminology. The bulk of the study reviews Fattah’s (2000: 9) proposed dialect classification and complements it with the evaluation of language data from older sources, the author’s own research in Kermānshāh Province and other documentation activities recently carried out in the SK-speaking area, sketching possible directions for future research.
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21/05/2021: Intervento nell’ambito del Seminario «La lingua kurda tra passato e presente» organizzato da Istituto Kurdo e ISMEO, in collaborazione con le Università di Sulaimani e del Rojava.
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Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL-4). 2-3 September 2019. Université de Rouen-Normandie.
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Paper presented at the ONIC (Oral narration in Iranian Culture) Conference in honour of Professor Bo Utas on his 80th birthday. 7-9 June 2018. Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University.
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Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL-3). 25-26 August 2016. University of Amsterdam.
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Paper presented at the Graduate Student Conference “Le attività di ricerca dei dottorandi del Dipartimento di Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo”. 8-10 June 2015. Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale".
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Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Variation and Change in Kurdish (VCK-II). 8-9 October 2014. Mardin Artuklu University.
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Research Interests: Travel Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Ecocriticism, travel writing, popular literature and culture, Early Modern Travellers, European travellers and their depictions of the ancient and Islamic history of the Near East, and 5 moreRole of Women in the Kurdish villages, Italian travellers, Early Modern Travel Literature, Kurdish Women, and Early Modern Travel and Empire
La letteratura di viaggio europea, specialmente all’apice della sua produzione e circolazione nel XIX sec., ci restituisce numerose descrizioni di donne kurde e dei loro usi e costumi. La posizione e il ruolo della donna nella società... more
La letteratura di viaggio europea, specialmente all’apice della sua produzione e circolazione nel XIX sec., ci restituisce numerose descrizioni di donne kurde e dei loro usi e costumi. La posizione e il ruolo della donna nella società kurda erano aspetti particolarmente interessanti per i primi osservatori europei, poiché rappresentavano – nella loro visione fortemente etnocentrica e influenzata da alcuni preconcetti sulla natura delle “società primitive” – un metro di giudizio utile a valutare il grado di civilizzazione (o di primitività) dei gruppi umani con cui entravano in contatto, attraverso il loro confronto con l’ethos europeo dell’epoca. Lo stereotipo ricorrente in queste descrizioni tratteggia figure femminili dai caratteri molto più positivi rispetto a quelli attribuiti alla loro controparte maschile. La donna kurda viene presentata generalmente come: 1) diversa dalle altre donne "orientali", sia nei costumi che nello status sociale; 2) libera, fiera e intelligente, dotata di diritti simili a quelli degli uomini; 3) dedita alla casa e alla famiglia, capace di sostituirsi agli uomini in loro assenza; 4) forte e battagliera, pari agli uomini nelle capacità militari. La riproposizione di questo immaginario nel dibattito nazionalista sulla “questione femminile” in Kurdistan a partire dagli inizi del XX sec. ne determinerà la riproduzione e sopravvivenza fino all'epoca contemporanea.
Research Interests: Travel Literature, Women and Gender Studies, Ecocriticism, travel writing, popular literature and culture, Early Modern Travellers, European travellers and their depictions of the ancient and Islamic history of the Near East, and 6 moreRole of Women in the Kurdish villages, Italian travellers, Early Modern Travel Literature, Kurdish Women, Letteratura Odeporica, and Early Modern Travel and Empire
Sebbene non manchino similitudini con le celebrazioni del capodanno nel resto del mondo iranico, le tradizioni popolari kurde del Newroz/ نەورۆز preservano specificità di grande interesse storico-culturale. Accanto alle rievocazioni... more
Sebbene non manchino similitudini con le celebrazioni del capodanno nel resto del mondo iranico, le tradizioni popolari kurde del Newroz/ نەورۆز preservano specificità di grande interesse storico-culturale. Accanto alle rievocazioni pubbliche delle mitiche gesta del fabbro Kawa (kurd. Kawayê hesinger/کاوەی ئاسنگەر ), cui è legata l’etnogenesi dei kurdi, esistono pratiche di tipo performativo meno note – sopravvissute nel Kurdistan iraniano e iracheno almeno fino alla metà del XX sec. – che prevedono l’installazione temporanea, per il periodo di passaggio tra il vecchio e il nuovo anno, di un re fittizio (kurd. mîrmîrên/میرمیرێن – pers. mir-e nowruzi "emiro di capodanno"). In questa e altre celebrazioni locali si ravvisano curiosi parallelismi sia con le sostituzioni regali del mondo antico, che con le tradizioni carnevalesche del medioevo europeo.
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Lezione propedeutica al Seminario "Introduzione alla Lingua Kurda (Sorani)" (attività formativa integrativa di 12 ore, 2 CFU per gli studenti dei Corsi di Lingua Persiana triennale e magistrale). Università degli Studi di Napoli... more
Lezione propedeutica al Seminario "Introduzione alla Lingua Kurda (Sorani)" (attività formativa integrativa di 12 ore, 2 CFU per gli studenti dei Corsi di Lingua Persiana triennale e magistrale). Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale" – DAAM.
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Attività formativa integrativa di 12 ore (2 CFU) per gli studenti dei Corsi di Lingua Persiana triennale e magistrale. Materiali didattici e sintesi delle lezioni disponibili su richiesta a sarabelelli@gmail.com; sbelelli@unior.it.