Binding Hierarchy and Complement Clauses in Sorani Kurdish

Subject Areas : Persian Language and Literature

Mohammad Sedigh Zahedi ¹ , Habib Soleymani ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Farhangyan University, Sanandaj
2 - Assistant Professor, Farhangyan University OF Kurdistan

Received: 2015-07-12 Accepted : 2016-01-17 Published : 2016-02-20

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Abstract :

The author’s aim in writing this article is to study complement clauses in Sorani dialect of Kurdish and compare them with Givon's Binding Hierarchy. Having Observed predicates' behavior and their complements, we came to the conclusion that predicates classification and binding hierarchy of complements in Sorani , except in a few numbers, follows the diagram presented by Givon, and confirms his claim that binding hierarchy of complements is a universal tendency among world languages.