Publications

Articles
in press | Karim, Shuan Osman and Masoud Mohammadirad. Demorphologization and Remorphologization: the loss of an imperfective prefix except as a placeholder of stress, the last vestige of a negation marker in Hewramî. Journal of Historical Linguistics. |
in press | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Shuan Osman Karim. The typology of verbal person/number syncretism in Western Iranic languages. Language Dynamics and Change. |
2025 | Joseph, Brian, Shuan Osman Karim, and Clint Awai-Jennings. Historical Linguistics for High School Students: The Ohio Experience Pedagogical Linguistics. |
2025 | Mohammadirad, Masoud and Shuan Osman Karim. The development of imperfective and subjunctive marking in Hewramî. Linguistics |
2023 | Karim, Shuan Osman. The heuristic of Economy and Proto-Iranian stop clusters. Chatreššar. 2/2021 |
2022 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Akkadian [e]. JAOS 142.1. 177-191 |
2019 | Elsner, Micha and Andrea D Sims, et al. Modeling morphological learning, typology, and change: What can the neural sequence-to-sequence framework contribute? Journal of Language Modelling 7.1, 126-170. |
Chapters
2024 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Can insignifcant evidence yield a signifcant result? sub-grouping Southern Kurdish based on imperfective allomorphs. In Songül Gündogdu and Agnes Grond (eds.), Current issues in Kurdish linguistics II. Praesens: Wien. |
2024 | Karim, Shuan Osman and Saloumeh Gholami. Introduction. In Shuan Osman Karim and Saloumeh Gholami (eds.), Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context. Berlin: De Gruyter. |
2024 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Pattern Borrowing in The Southern Kurdish Zone. In Shuan Osman Karim and Saloumeh Gholami (eds.), Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context. Berlin: De Gruyter. |
2023 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Ezafe and the Article. In Advances in IranianLinguistics II, Karimi, Simin, Narges Nematollahi, Roya Kabiri and Jian Gang Ngui (eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. |
2022 | Karim, Shuan Osman and Ali Salehi. An applicative analysis of Soranî “absolute prepositions”. In Neglected syntactic functions and non-syntactic functions of Applicative Morphology, eds.Sara Pacchiarotti and Fernando Zúñiga. Berlin: De Gruyter |
Books
2024 | Karim, Shuan Osman and Saloumeh Gholami (eds.). Gorani in its Historical and Linguistic Context. Berlin: De Gruyter. |
Theses
2021 | Karim, Shuan Osman. The synchrony and diachrony of New Western Iranian nominal morphosyntax. The Ohio State University dissertation. |
Reviews
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Yaron Matras, Geoffrey Haig, Ergin Öpengin (eds.). Structural and Typological Variation in the Dialects of Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Jaffer Sheyholislami, Rahim Surkhi. Lexical Variation and Semantic Change in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Erik Anonby. Phonological Variation in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Songül Gündoğdu. Case in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Ergin Öpengin, Masoud Mohammadirad. Pronominal Clitics Across Kurdish: Areal Distribution, Structural Variation, and Diachrony. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Sara Belelli. A Cross-Dialect Account of Kurdish Past Tense Categories, with Special Reference to Southern Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Maximilian Kinzler. Adpositions in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Geoffrey Haig. Post-Predicate Constituents in Kurdish. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |
2025 | Karim, Shuan Osman. Review of Yaron Matras. The Typology of Connectivity and Complex Constructions in Kurdish Dialects. Abstracta Iranica, 45. |