Asymmetrical Subject-Verb Agreement in Standard Arabic and Urdu Languages: A Comparative StudyComparative Study • November 8th, 2019
This study attempts to demystify the structural patterns in Arabic and Urdu languages in order to justify that both languages technically belong to two unrelated language families and despite a lot of intercultural similarities and patterns in both, each has distinct sentence structures. In this paper, the researchers specifically investigate subject-verb agreement in Arabic and Urdu languages. Arabic is a language that uses Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) and Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) word order. Verb initial word orders like in Classical Arabic are relatively rare across the world's languages. Urdu uses the Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) order, which in linguistic typology, is one in which the subject, object and verb of a sentence usually appear in that order and this label is often used for Ergative languages too that do not have subjects but have an agent–object–verb order. This research paper explains various alternations of these word orders in both Arabic and Urdu to show how this agreeme