Adyghe and English/Contrastive Grammar
From LING073
Differences
- Cases and postpositions on nouns
- (ady) пкъышъолкӏэ → (eng) with flesh
- (ady) пкъышъол<n><indef><sg><erg>+кӏэ<inst> → (eng) with<pr> flesh<n><sg>
- Possession marked on nouns
- (ady) сыгу → (eng) my heart
- (ady) сыгу<n><indef><sg><px1sgi> → (eng) my<det><px1sg> heart<n><sg>
- (ady) сищ → (eng) my horse
- (ady) сищ<n><indef><sg><px1sga> → (eng) my<det><px1sg> horse<n><sg>
- Subjects and objects are marked on verbs
- (ady) сигъэпцӏагъэти → (eng) he deceived me
- Prepositions marked on verbs
- (ady) тыфакӏо → (eng) we are going for him
- Differing word order (SOV)
- (ady) Тхьэр ошъо гъэӏагъэм «уашъокӏэ» еджагъ. → (eng) God called the heavenly expanse "sky".
- Definiteness marked on nouns.
- (ady) кӏалэм → (eng) the boy
- (ady) кӏалэ<n><def><sg><erg> → (eng) the<det><def><sg> boy<n><sg>
- (ady) гур → (eng) the heart
- (ady) гу<n><def><sg><abs> → (eng) the<det><def><sg> heart<n><sg>