Grammatical Morphemes of Noun in Sorani Kurdish: A Morphophonological Study

The present study investigates the morphophonological processes of grammatical morphemes of noun in Sorani Kurdish based on generative phonology. In this research, two main goals are pursued: introducing the grammatical morphemes of noun in Sorani Kurdish, and finding the derivational processes of these alternative representations from the underlying forms. For this purpose, a ten-hour corpus of native speakers of Mariwan city was gathered, transcribed, categorized, and eventually analyzed. The results of these analyzes revealed that in Sorani Kurdish language, by adding grammatical morphemes to nouns, the processes of inserting, deleting and changing vowels into glide in morpheme boundary and the noun base were the most productive processes in this language.