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.