Linking verbs in modern standard English and their counterparts in modern standard Arabic : a contrastive analysis

الملخص EN

The present research tries to discuss and analyze the topic of linking verbs in English modern standard English (henceforth MSE) and modern standard Arabic (henceforth MSA).

the present investigation aims at identifying, analyzing and contrasting linking verbs in MSE and their counterparts in MSA to find out the aspects of similarity and dissimilarity in both languages.

it is hypothesized that the differences are more than similarities in the field of discussion between the two languages.

the present study tries to answer the following questions : (i) what are linking verbs in English? (ii) what are the words that mean or imply the meaning of linking verbs in Arabic? to what range both languages are similar or different? the study comprises introduction and four sections.

section one identifies linking verbs in English.

section two explains the nearly counterparts of linking verbs in Arabic.

section three is contrastive analysis of linking verbs in English and Arabic.

finally, section four concludes the results the researcher arrives at.