Central Kurdish Demonstrative

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Volume 7 · Issue 1 · January 2020

Similarities and Differences between the Demonstratives in Kurdish and English

Rezhna Maarwf Husein, Shler Mohammed Ali

This study explores the English and Central Kurdish[1] demonstratives as deictic expressions by stating their morphological, syntactical and semantic properties. As a result, the similar and different linguistic properties of the demonstratives of the two languages are pointed out. The outcome of the study may provide more elucidation to linguistics in general. Additionally, it may give clearer vision to language pedagogy and translation.