STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC MODELS OF COMPOUND AND ASYNDETIC COMPLEX SENTENCES IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH: COORDINATION, PARALLELISM, AND PRAGMATIC FUNCTIONS IN DISCOURSE

Abstract

This paper presents a comparative structural-semantic account of compound and asyndetic complex sentences in Uzbek and English, with special attention to coordination, parallelism, and discourse-level pragmatic effects. Using a corpus-informed qualitative analysis across narrative, academic, and journalistic texts, the study maps how clausal combinations are formed through explicit coordinators, punctuation, intonation, and contextual inference. The research distinguishes symmetrical coordination from asymmetrical coordination, identifies patterns of ellipsis and constituent sharing, and describes how these configurations correlate with semantic relations such as sequencing, contrast, explanation, and consequence. The analysis shows that English more consistently signals interclausal relations through conjunctions and punctuation conventions, whereas Uzbek more frequently permits non-conjunctive linkage in which semantic relations are recovered from word order, aspect-temporal forms, and discourse continuity. Parallel constructions are shown to function as a major mechanism of cohesion: they stabilize thematic development, enhance rhetorical impact, and facilitate argumentative structuring by aligning clause frames. Pragmatically, speakers exploit asyndetic linkage to increase pace, compress reasoning, and foreground salient propositions, while overt coordination supports explicit logical tracking and reduces interpretive load. The study concludes with a set of cross-linguistic structural-semantic models and a pragmatic explanation of their distribution, providing guidance for discourse analysis and advanced language teaching in philological contexts.