Comparative Analysis of English and Albanian: The Communicative Function of Sentences

Abstract

This paper is focused on the linguistics of both English and Albanian language, as the two languages belong to the same parent language, the Indo-European, but undeniably each of them has its own features. Precisely, this paper is concerned with aspects belonging to the study field of syntax. The paper does have on focus the types of sentences according to their communicative function. By saying that it is focused on the types of sentences according to communicative function, it is understood that in both languages these sentences will be analysed by the syntactic point of view. As the title signifies, this paper will be a comparative paper, falling under the study field of comparative syntax, meaning that it will analyse the types of sentences according to function in both languages and the similarities and differences will be pointed out. This research within this paper is ought to analyse and determine how these types of sentences are translated in Albanian and how do English sentences fall into Albanian. This is also a study of concerns that would be beneficial to new students of English and Albanian language.