Direct And Indirect Objects In German And Turkish

The aim of this paper is to outline the main features of the four language skill which are listening, speaking, reading and writing and to demonstrate some useful methods in order to operate with these skills. Although language often involves the use of all four skills, for the sake of their improvement, in this study it is going to focus on grammar. Grammar rules and their intercession within some methods let to learn the foreign learners some unnecessary knowledge. The main purpose of this paper is to provide some guidelines to work with the objects. Objects are syntactic functions, which characterized depending on the morphological, positional and / or structural, whether a language is agglutinating, inflecting or fusionierend. They appear in the sentence as a person or circumstances on which relate the action / activity / operation of which are referred to in verb. They complement the predicate and therefore called in Turkish tümleç. In traditional Turkish studies, the object is defined as a phrase in the definite or indefinite accusative, which complements the transitive verb. In scientific use of language it is distinguished between the indirect and direct object. The accusative object stands for the direct object and dative object is signed in indirect object. Beside these aspects, it is focused in this paper on how the issue of "direct and indirect objects" is treated in grammars: In both German and Turkish linguistics books and Turkish textbooks, direct and indirect object distinction has been made. However, this distinction has no benefit for the language learners; furthermore, it causes confusion, as it hasn’t been done in accordance with a consistent criterion. This distinction, not having been done basing on a consistent criterion, causes difficulties for Turkish learners to learn a foreign language. To this extend, the aim of this study is to give examples to such inconsistencies in both German and Turkish and, therefore, to prove that it is no use making a distinction between direct and indirect objects.

Keywords

Object, direct object, indirect object, situation, situational meaning