Copyright

Hiwa Asadpour; Masoume Zarei;

Published On

2026-01-07

Page Range

pp. 233–276

Language

  • English

Print Length

44 pages

5. Passive Constructions in Garrusi Kurdish

Chapter of: Passivisation in Semitic, Iranian, Armenian, and Beyond(pp. 233–276)
This chapter provides a detailed analysis of passive constructions in Garrusi Kurdish, a minority variety spoken in Iran. ​ It identifies four passive patterns, including three morphological and one periphrastic. The study explores the interaction of tense, aspect, transitivity, and causativity in passive formation, highlighting the role of suffixes and auxiliaries. ​ It also discusses the typological feature of agent suppression in Garrusi Kurdish passives and the structural constraints on agent expression. ​

Contributors

Hiwa Asadpour

(author)
Research Fellow at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at Goethe University Frankfurt
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7074-2435

(PhD, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2021) is a Research Fellow at the Johanna Quandt Young Academy at the Goethe University Frankfurt (JQYA), where he explores interdisciplinary applications of his linguistic research. He specialises in comparative and corpus-based linguistic analysis of Iranian and non-Iranian languages, with a focus on morphosyntax. His current research examines language production mechanisms in Kurdish varieties, Persian, Armenian, Neo-Aramaic, and Azeri-Turkic, integrating natural language corpus data (both fieldwork and published sources) with experimental results. He is actively involved in the development of treebanks for several Kurdish varieties within the Universal Dependencies framework, and is supervising the development of treebanks for other low-resource Iranian languages at Saarland University.

Masoume Zarei

(author)
Teacher of Persian at the Centre for Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages at Allameh Tabataba'i University

(PhD, Allameh Tabataba'i University, Tehran, 2025) teaches Persian at the Centre for Teaching Persian to Speakers of Other Languages at Allameh Tabataba’i University, as well as at the International College of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Her research interests include linguistic typology, areal linguistics, and minority and low-resource languages. Her work primarily focuses on the typological and structural features of Persian, Kurdish, and Azeri within a broader areal and comparative framework.