Proceedings of The 6th World Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities
Year: 2023
DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.33422/6th.shconf.2023.06.125
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A case study on similarities and differences of word order between English and Albanian language
Dr. Morena Braçaj
ABSTRACT:
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyze the word-order in English and Albanian and the similarities and differences between them. The main issue I will examine is the syntax and word order.
Methods: The method implied for the present work is based on comparative and contrastive research methodology in a cross-cohesive review.
Results: English and Albanian belong to the same mother tongue, Indo-European but, each of them has its own meaning. The present paper observed that the syntax in Albanian and English is quite different. The word order in Albanian sentences is more flexible compared to English. The cross-cohesive review revealed that the Albanian language has inverse word order and intonation plays a role in the emphasis of the subject. English has a fixed order and intonation does not play a role in determining the order of the parts and sentence type. However, there is a disparity regarding the presence of structure inside and outside direct speech. The syntactic category most impacted by the movement between the parts of sentences in Albanian, coincides with the syntactic function most displaced the direct object.
Conclusions: In the end, by a thorough review of the literature in both languages, it was found that even with different grammar rules, both Albanian and English share the same characteristic in terms of the cognitive and social constructs. Language is a vital part of human interaction, and we use it in daily life to convey information, arguments, thoughts, feelings, and ideas. To use it effectively, people must follow its rules based on grammar, morphology, syntax, phonetics, and linguistics.
keywords: English, Albanian, word order, syntactic similarities, differences