Comparative Study of Number and Case Categories in English, Tatar and Arabic

Abstract

This paper deals with the category of number and case in genealogically far languages: English, Arabic and Tatar as the language of the ethnic minority. It aims at applying Greenberg's linguistic universal number 39 to these very languages. Contrastive typology is the area of this report and expertise. The aims of our research are to draw the isomorphic regularities and the allomorphic singularities in the languages contrasted. The paper exhibits the correlation of case and number in the compared languages has not been studied yet. Greenberg's linguistic universal number 39 is tested on separate inflections of number and case because the position of these categories is stated with respect to each other in order to prove that the expression of number almost comes between the noun base and the expression of case.

Izafet vs non-Izafet genitive patterns in non-related languages

“…Similar developments in the Komi, Mari, and Mordvin languages are pointed out" (Rédei, 2009: 36). The izafet construction in Tatar as similar to a genitive ezafe in Persian has been mentioned in Mingazova and Shangaraeva's research (Mingazova & Shangaraeva, 2014). Öztürk and Taylan (2016) investigate the syntax and semantics of possessive constructions at the phrasal level in Turkish, namely, genitive-possessive constructions (GP), possessive free genitives (PFG) and possessive compounds (PC).…”