Syntax Comparison of Simple Tenses in English, Kurdish and Turkish

Authors : Mehmet Veysi Babayiğit, Veysel Tanrikulu

Pages : 287-307

Doi:10.21600/ijoks.976631

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Publication Date : 2021-08-25

Article Type : Research

Abstract :This study focuses on (1) Turkic languages in the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic language group of Asian languages, and also (2) the Kurdish language in the group of Indo-Iranian languages, dialects of which are spoken in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, as well as (3) the English language in the Germanic languages of the European group. The syntax-cases of tenses are investigated. Four simple tenses, namely simple present, simple present continuous, simple past and future tense are examined individually. Then, these tenses are compared to each other. As a result of the comparison, the syntax-cases of the languages investigated are revealed. Then it was found that there are both similarities and differences in terms of syntax-cases between the language groups examined.
Keywords : Ural-Altaic languages, Indo-Iranian languages, Germanic languages, syntax-cases, comparative study of tense in different language groups