Shuan Osman Karim

Presentations

Conference papers, invited talks, workshops, and poster presentations

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2025

Paper
Defining a documentary protocol for Iranian Linguistics
Mohammadirad, Masoud and Shuan Osman Karim
August 2025
Workshop on Oral Literature in Modernity: Documentation, Preservation, and Interpretation
Cambridge University
Workshop
A documentary protocol for Kurdish Linguistics
Karim, Shuan Osman and Masoud Mohammadirad
August 2025
Seventh International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics
Bamberg Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg
Paper
The role of zero in morphological analogy in Kurdish, Goranî and Zazaki
Karim, Shuan Osman
August 2025
Seventh International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics
Bamberg Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg
Paper
Areal Phenomena Reinforce the Plausibility of Reconstruction: An examination of microvariation in Kurdish and Gorani
Karim, Shuan Osman
August 2025
Twenty-seventh International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Paper
Distilling the progressive aspect from the imperfective: the case of Melikşay Southern Kurdish
Karim, Shuan Osman
July 2025
Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
Bamberg
Paper
The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranian languages
Karim, Shuan Osman and Masoud Mohammadirad
May 2025
Fifth North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics
University of Toronto
Invited Talk
Archaism and Innovation in Kurdish
Karim, Shuan Osman
March 2025
Siebold Collegium Institute for Advanced Studies (SCIAS)
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

2024

Invited Talk
Contact reinforces comparative reconstruction: a case study in Kurdish and Gorani
Karim, Shuan Osman
November 2024
Goethe University Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Invited Talk
Progressive to negative and other unexpected developments in Iranian languages
Karim, Shuan Osman
February 2024
University of Surrey
Surrey

2023

Paper
Wordhood domains in Central Kurdish (project update)
Karim, Shuan Osman and Erika Just
September 2023
6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL6)
Goethe University Frankfurt
Paper
The accentual system of Ankara Northern Kurdish
Karim, Shuan Osman and Kellen Parker van Dam
September 2023
6th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL6)
Goethe University Frankfurt
Paper
Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions, Illustrated through the Interplay between Sound Change and Analogy in the Progressive-to-Imperfective Cycle in Northern, Central, and Southern Kurdish
Karim, Shuan Osman
September 2023
Sound change and morphological analogy (IG-AT2023)
University of Cologne
Workshop
W8: Filling in the diachronic gaps: The view of Old Iranian from the present
Karim, Shuan Osman and Saloumeh Gholami
September 2023
Twenty-sixth International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL26)
University of Heidelberg
Poster
The heuristic of Economy and the reflexes of Proto-Iranian stop clusters
Karim, Shuan Osman
April 2023
3rd North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics
Los Angeles, California

2022

Paper
Definiteness, DOM, and Ezafat: the reflexes of Proto-Indo-Iranian k-form evaluative suffixes
Karim, Shuan Osman
November 2022
2022 conference of the European research network on linguistics and languages of the Anatolia-Caucasus-Iran-Mesopotamia area (LACIM)
Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales
Paper
Disentangling mutually shared innovations, shared retentions, coincidence, and contact phenomena in Southern Kurdish and Gorani
Karim, Shuan Osman
September 2022
Minorities in the Zagros - Language & Identity workshop
Goethe University Frankfurt
Paper
Towards a new paradigm in Historical Syntax
Karim, Shuan Osman
August 2022
25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Oxford University
Paper
Historical Linguistics in High School: The Columbus Experience
Joseph, Brian D., Shuan Osman Karim, and Kakela Awai-Jennings
August 2022
25th International Conference on Historical Linguistics
Oxford University
Invited Talk
The Kurdish Imperfective: Diachronic, Typological, and Pan-Iranian Perspectives
Karim, Shuan Osman
February 2022
Department of Linguistics at HSE University
HSE University

2021

Invited Talk
The synchrony and dichrony of applicative morphology in Soranî Kurdish
Karim, Shuan Osman
November 2021
University of Arizona
Arizona
Paper
A diachrony of Kurdish imperfective affixes
Karim, Shuan Osman
September 2021
5th International Conference on Kurdish Linguistics (ICKL5)
University of Graz
Paper
Towards a typology of the ezafe: the Iranian ezafe as a type-raising functor
Karim, Shuan Osman
August 2021
5th American International Morphology Meeting
The Ohio State University
Paper
Applicatives in Soranî Kurdish
Karim, Shuan Osman and Ali Salehi
April 2021
4th Conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (ConCALL4)
University of Indiana Bloomington

2020

Paper
The Diachrony of Central Kurdish Applicative Markers
Karim, Shuan Osman
August 2020
Societas Linguistica Europaea 2020 (SLE2020) WS 6: Neglected syntactic functions and non-syntactic functions of Applicative Morphology
Bucharest, Romania
Poster
Soranî Valence Changing Affixes: Teetering on the boundary between morphology and syntax
Karim, Shuan Osman and Ali Salehi
January 2020
94th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA94)
New Orleans, Louisiana

2019

Paper
Competition between formatives and the diversity of ezafat
Karim, Shuan Osman
July 2019
24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL24)
Canberra, Australia
Paper
The Origin of the ezafe Paradigm in Zazaki (and Other Western Iranian Languages)
Karim, Shuan Osman
April 2019
2nd North American Conference on Iranian Linguistics (NACIL2)
Tucson, Arizona
Poster
Coincidence or Contact? Aramaic "Ayin" and Akkadian [e]
Karim, Shuan Osman
January 2019
93rd Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (LSA93)
New York, New York

2018

Paper
The Kurmancî tense ezafe and its Deep Roots in Western Iranian
Karim, Shuan Osman
October 2018
8th International Conference on Iranian Linguistics
Yerevan, Armenia

2017

Poster
Soranî (Central Kurdish) Oblique Pronominal Markers: A Morphological Constellation
Karim, Shuan Osman
September 2017
LSA: Linguistic Institute: Language Across Space and Time
Lexington, Kentucky
Poster
Soranî (Central Kurdish) Oblique Pronominal Markers: The Development of a Morphological Constellation
Karim, Shuan Osman
August 2017
Fourth Pavia International Summer School for Indo-European Linguistics
Pavia, Italy