Narrative Syntax in Kurdish Folktales.
By: Kawa Abdulkareem Rasul, Ismail Abdulrahman Abdulla.
POLY TECHNIC JOURNAL, V. 5, No.1, 2015.
Narrative analysis has become a fruitful area in different fields of knowledge. Narrative can be studied in literature, linguistics, stylistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, medicine, etc. The present paper aims at studying the narrative structure of three Kurdish folktales in a syntactic perspective, since the area of structural patterns that make up the Kurdish folktales has not got much attention of academic research. To achieve this purpose, the three Kurdish folktales, ‘The Result of Greed’, ‘The King and Fate’, and ‘Strike, Strike, What You Saw is All What You Get’, are analyzed according to Labov’s narrative syntax. It is hypothesized that Labov’s syntax is applicable to the analysis of the Kurdish folktales narrative structure. The study has concluded that Labov’s model can be regarded as syntax for the Kurdish folktales as it is for natural (i.e., orally told) narratives. [1]
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