THE NON-FINITE VERBS AND THEIR MAIN SYNTACTIC CHARACTERISTICS – A CASE STUDY IN ALBANIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGE
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During my lifelong studies of linguistics and linguistic phenomena, one of the most interesting and most specific issues that I have encountered is the phenomenon called the non-finite verbs. One of the key reasons as to why this is so is the fact that non-finites are an intermediary element. They are a hybrid between the verb and other parts of speech. You cannot tell whether they belong to a certain group by just looking at them. Maybe graphically they look like a verb would generally look, but when looking deeper at the morphological, semantic and syntactic level we can sort out that they are a special case on their own. You cannot tell whether they are a verb, or perhaps a noun, an adjective or an adverb. It is precisely this reason why I have decided to focus my study on the non-finite verbs. Their unique characteristics makes them the transitional part of speech many languages posses as one of a kind. Needless to say, my goal by making this study is to know them better. And, there is no better way of knowing them better than a proper syntactic analysis of the non-finite verbs. The view of language from a syntactic level will enable to delve deeper into the specific nature of a languages’ non-finite verbs, i.e. t determine the level of transition the non-finite form has undergone from being a verb to being another part of sentence. To make the process transition even better, we have found it necessary to have at least two languages so we can know how the transition process evolves. We have taken Albanian language, a pure language viewed by many linguists as a unique language in the Indo-European family of languages, and English language, a modern language which has gone through series of transitions and adjustments before becoming what it is today. By taking in comparison the non-finites of these two languages, as well as their syntactic features, we will see just how precisely a non-finite form transforms from a verb into another part of speech in different languages and a different transitional period.Downloads
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