Types of Monopredicative Constructions in German and Uzbek Languages and the Expression of Their Syntactic and Semantic Features
Keywords:
monopredicative construction, German syntax, Uzbek syntax, contrastive linguistics, simple sentence, semantic roles, predication, typological analysis, word order, agglutinationAbstract
This article presents a comprehensive contrastive analysis of monopredicative constructions (MPCs) in German and Uzbek — two typologically distinct languages representing the Indo-European (Germanic) and Turkic language families respectively. The study investigates the structural, syntactic, and semantic properties of simple sentences with a single predicative center, examining how each language encodes subject-predicate relationships, tense, modality, and semantic roles. The research employs a descriptive-comparative methodology drawing on representative corpus examples from both languages. The findings demonstrate that while German MPCs are characterized by strict V2 word order, inflectional morphology, and overt copula use in nominal predication, Uzbek MPCs exhibit agglutinative verb agreement, flexible topic-prominent word order (SOV), and frequent copula ellipsis. At the semantic level, both languages encode identical logical propositions through divergent grammatical means. The article identifies six structural types of MPCs in each language, provides parallel syntactic trees, and analyzes semantic role assignment. The results contribute to typological linguistics and have implications for bilingual pedagogy and translation theory.
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