Adyghe and English/Contrastive Grammar
From LING073
Differences
- Cases on all 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) сищ → (eng) my horse
- 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".