The Structure of Phrases in English and Albanian
The Structure of Phrases in English and Albanian

A Contrastive Analysis

Summary/Abstract: The main purpose of this study is to analyze phrases’ structure in English and Albanian language in order to come up to a conclusion regarding similarities and differences between the previously mentioned languages. Besides of this, the research in hand tends to provide a basis for contrast between these grammatical forms in English and Albanian. Prior studies in phrase structures are mainly centered on phrases and their divergent classification in both languages, taking into account their structure, too.In an attempt to analyze and finalize a conclusion relevant to the research, thirty sentences are extracted from George Orwell’s “1984” in its original English version and their correspondent translation in Albanian, and thirty sentences are extracted from Ismail Kadare’s original Albanian book version “ The General of the Dead Army” accompanied by their English translation. Therefore, for the purpose of identifying different types of phrases in the provided data charts are used, associated with a detailed analysis of phrases’ structure as well as their discussion. Moreover, the results offer indisputable evidence of phrase structure differences between these two languages. The most striking result to emerge from the extracted data is in tremendous amount of cases related to head word modifiers distinctions, omission of phrases when translated in Albanian, simple ones being translated as complex ones and vice versa, and changing their type (headword) when translated form one language to another.

• Details
• Contents