Open AccessSimilarities and Differences between the Demonstratives in Kurdish and English
Author(s) -
Rezhna Maarwf Husein,
Shler Mohammed Ali
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
govarî zankoy ṛapeṛîn
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2522-7130
pISSN - 2410-1036
DOI - 10.26750/vol(7).no(1).paper3
Subject(s) - deixis , linguistics , demonstrative , contrastive linguistics , psychology , applied linguistics , philosophy
This study explores the English and Central Kurdish[1] demonstratives as deictic expressions by stating their morphological, syntactical and semantic properties. As a result, the similar and different linguistic properties of the demonstratives of the two languages are pointed out. The outcome of the study may provide more elucidation to linguistics in general. Additionally, it may give clearer vision to language pedagogy and translation.