Participle I of German Language and its Corresponding Forms in Albanian Language

Abstract

The verbal system of different languages has often been object of study of various linguists. A particular interest in these studies have been nonfinite forms of the verb, which are widely studied with regard to their method of construction, their morphological particularities and their syntactical functions. They are not only studied as part of the verbal system of a particular language, but have also been subject to comparative studies between different languages. The purpose of these studies was to find common points and differences between nonfinite verb forms of different languages, viewing them as a morphosyntactic category, studying the combination of their verbal features with those of other parts of speech and studying their syntactical functions. The comparisons are made between languages of the same family and also between languages of different families. This paper is centered on two Indo – European languages such as German and Albanian and intends to make an approach to one of the nonfinite verb forms of German with standard Albanian. The German language recognizes three forms of infinitive verbs: infinitive, participle I or present participle and participle II or past participle. In this paper as mentioned is studied one of the nonfinite verb forms of German language, the participle I, with a view to finding its corresponding forms in Albanian, to find which infinitive forms of Albanian corresponds to the participle I of the German and which other grammatical tools respond to him in the standard Albanian language. The participle I of German language is multifunctional and its functions are covered by various grammatical tools in the Albanian language, which play almost the same functions as in German. To make such an approach is used an extensive literature in both languages and examples that illustrate the theoretical material has been extracted by German literary works, which have been translated into Albanian language.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2014.v4n2p43