THE NOMINAL PREDICATE (ALBANIAN - ENGLISH)

The aim of this paper is to description the nominal of predicate between two languages (Albanian – English). The purpose of the following discussing is to show that some noun phrases, namely predicate nominal’s, do not seem to exhibit. What is considering the typical behavior of noun phrase? First, they do not seem to be assigned case. Second, they may not assign are roles in normal sense so that they are probably as Theta-marker arguments, unlike referential Noun Phrases.^[1] In Albanian language the nominal predicate can express with auxiliary verb (to be, have) and noun, too. “The predicate has the function of giving information about the subject ...”

[1] Elena Herburger. (1990). English noun phrase structure. Wien, p. 69.