COMPARISON OF DEGREES OF ADJECTIVES IN TURKMEN AND JAPANESE LANGUAGES

Аннотация

This paper explores the comparative and superlative structures of adjectives in the Turkmen and Japanese languages, focusing on the semantic, morphological, and syntactic strategies each language employs to express degrees of comparison. Turkmen, a member of the Turkic language family, relies heavily on suffixation and analytic constructions, while Japanese, an agglutinative language of the Japonic family, uses auxiliary constructions and adverbs for similar functions. This study examines both languages through a typological and contrastive lens to determine how linguistic typology influences the strategies for forming degrees of comparison. Examples from authentic texts and grammars provide the basis for analysis. The research aims to highlight how structural differences influence the grammaticalization of comparison and reflect broader typological traits. By drawing from native and translated sources, this paper offers insights for both language learners and comparative linguists interested in adjective gradation and cross-linguistic patterns. The findings emphasize the diversity of comparison systems and their cognitive and cultural implications.