Adjectival Phrases in English and Kurdish A Contrastive Study
Abbas Mustafa Abbas
College of Basic Education, University of Sulaimani
DOI: https://doi.org/10.25130/jls.2.4.6
Keywords: -Languages -Similarity -The different - Attributes
Abstract
This research is an attempt to show the similarities and differences of adjectival phrases in both English and Kurdish languages and to present how the two languages are rich in using adjectival phrases. English and Kurdish adjectives have some similar and different properties which affect language learning/teaching and translation. Adjectival phrases in both languages have the same syntactic and predicative functions. Moreover, in both languages superlative adjectives are dealt with morphologically.
Throughout this contrastive study, we will be able to recognize the mistakes and differentiate between the adjectival phrases in these two languages. As a result, researchers will know how to use adjectival phrases correctly without any confusion.
This study is of four sections. The first one deals with a brief
