%0 Journal Article
%T WORD ORDER IN ALBANIAN, TURKISH AND ENGLISH-A PRAGMATICALLY ORIENTED RESEARCH
%A Lindita SEJD£¿U RUGOVA
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%D 2018
%X Albanian and Turkish belong to two different language families and their different language structures make these two languages different in regard to their syntactic structure. Albanian is a flexible and analytic language with diversity, while Turkish is an agglutinative language extensive and morpheme accumulation (often with different syntactic functions) within the word makes these two languages more interesting to compare. The syntactic feature of Turkish language is leftbranching generation of sentences. The predicate is the first pattern located at the end of the sentence and then the other patterns of the sentence precede it. This norm has also been referred to as the ¡®basic syntactic law of the Altaic languages¡¯ (the determining element precedes the element which it determines) (Johanson, 2002: 25). Greenberg (1966) classified Turkic as ¡®the rigid subtype¡¯ of the so-called SOV languages, meaning the order of determining elements (complements and determinatives) within the phrase of the Turkish syntax is chained (successive); therefore quite harmonized. Johanson argues that during its use in practice these iterative capsular rules divert to the natural use of the language. The purpose of this study is to analyze word order in syntactic units as the phrase and the sentence in order to observe how "ruthless / free" are the Albanian speakers when they come up with their first sentences in Turkish, and how this Turkish consistency affects Turkish students when they learn the first syntax of Albanian. Hence, the observation is going to be realized in both directions regarding the contrast of both grammatical systems, and the students are going to be approximately of the same age and approximately the same level of Turkish and Albanian language acquisition (first year Turkish students of the Albanian Language and Literature department who learn Albanian for the first time at the Trakya University in Edirne, Turkey, and Albanian students who learn Turkish for the first time in the Turkish Language and Literature department at the University of Pristina, Kosovo). Moreover, English word order will be analyzed in order to have a clear picture of the contrast of three linguistic typologies taking into consideration word order within the sentence
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/mahder/issue/41054/485369