Adjectives in english and berber kabyle : a contrastive study

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The primary concern in this work wasstudy adjectives in English and Berber Kabyle relying in our research on descriptive linguistics and CA.Aswas indicated at the outest, this CA involves standard british and Berber Kabyle.The purpose of studying this linguistic aspect in the languages was to see how the adjective is rendered in english and Berber Kabyle, bearing in mind that threre is controversy about the concept of adjective in Berber. This controversy, we shall briefly recall, consists of divergent viewpoint that berber sholars present as to the question of the existence/non-existence of a distinct class of adjectives in Berber.According to some researches, qualification is achieved by means of nouns and verbs of quality.This obviously implies the non-existence of adjectives in Berber.On the contary, other Berber sholars strongly claim the existence of adjectives especially in Northern Berber varieties, for exemple, Kabyle, Mezab, shleuh, Rif, Siwa, and so on