The Object and Transitivity between Arabic and Persian Languages

Abstract

Since ancient times, grammarians have been interested in studying of the pillars of the sentence, and the object was often important due to the fact that it is the pillar in which the meaning of the sentence is often completed. Although many studies have paid attention to the object, few of them have been interested in comparing or transgression the object in Arabic and the other languages, including Persian, as the extent of influence and the mutual influence that occurred between them is not hidden despite being from two separate linguistic families. Accordingly, we intended to conduct a contrastive study between the object and transitivity in the Arabic and Persian languages according to the descriptive analytical approach. The study concludes that the Arabic and Persian objects share in the concept, as well as they share in the concept of transitivity and immanence. However, there are points in which the two languages differ, including that the Persian verb does not exceed two explicit objects at the same time, and that the origin of the Arabic object is genitive except it is accusative as a result of the linguistic development, but the origin of the Persian is to be explicit, but it is transformed into an explicit object by using prepositions, so that the number of explicit objects in the sentence does not exceed one, or because direct transitivity is not possible, but it changes with the change of the word's number, and the sign of the object changes in Arabic, but in Persian, the sign does not change, and other differences that is deserve attention.