Ergative Verbs in English and Arabic
A comparative study
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https://doi.org/10.36324/fqhj.v1i51.20148Keywords:
Ergative verbs, accusative, transitive, intransitive, meters, nominativeAbstract
Ergativity is one the distinctive features that differentiate between two types of languages: ergative languages such as Basque and Eskimo languages and non-ergative languages such as Indo European languages. The paper stated a brief account about the ergative verbs in English and Arabic and how ergative verbs assign their subject to be under their influence. The paper highlighted the similarities and differences between Ergative verbs in English and Arabic. This comparison will help the researchers in grammar to understand the form and syntactic behavior of Ergative verbs in both languages English and Arabic. This paper would be of a good guide for both researchers of English and Arabic grammar.
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