The Passive Voice Between Middle Eastern Kurdish Dialect and Standard Turkish Language

Abstract

The current research study tackles the Passive Voice in Middle Eastern Kurdish Dialect and Standard Turkish Language relating to both past and present tenses of informative Mood. There are only four types of past tenses in the Middle Eastern Kurdish dialect, but apart from these four types of past tenses there are five more types in the standard Turkish language such as present tense referring to past action, story in the present tense, novel in the present tense, novel in the present continuous tense, and novel in the future tense. On the other hand, the present tense in the Middle Eastern Kurdish language has only one type, while in the standard Turkish language, there are three types such as present simple, present continuous, and future tense. Therefore, the agreement between both languages regarding the two main tenses (past and present tenses) has a major role in the basic structure of the passive voice. The major aim of this research study is that it is an applied study which demonstrates all uses of passive voice in both languages under study. Furthermore, this study is also important to any researcher who works in the field of linguistics and conducts comparative studies between these two languages.

Keywords

• indicative mood
• passive voice
• past
• present
• taff