Autor: Ergin Öpengin

Yaron Matras is former Professor of Linguistics at the University of Manchester, UK. He led the research project on Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish (2014-2017) and the creation of the Manchester Database of Kurdish Dialects. His research interests include contact linguistics and urban multilingualism, and the linguistics of Romani and of languages of the Middle East. Geoffrey L. J. Haig is Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bamberg, Germany. He has published extensively on Kurdish and neighbouring languages, focussing on diachrony and areal linguistics, and is the co-founder of Multi-CAST, an online accessible resource for corpus-based typology. Ergin Opengin is a Lecturer at the University of Kurdistan-Hewlêr, Iraq. His research focuses on the structural and sociolinguistic aspects of Kurdish. He is the author of The Mukri Variety of Central Kurdish (Reichert Verlag, 2016), and co-editor of Current Issues in Kurdish Linguistics (Bamberg University Press, 2019).