Structural-Semantic Features Of English And Kyrgyz Complex Sentences With Adverbial Clauses

Abstract

The article is devoted to the structural-semantic analysis of complex sentences with adverbial clauses in analytical Germanic English and agglutinative Turkic Kyrgyz languages. The presence in the compared languages of full-constituent subject-predicate structures is shown, which express complete predication at the level of the constituent parts of the complex sentences. It is noted that semantics of clauses in both languages depend not to a small extent on their location relative to the main sentence: in a preposition, i.e., before the main sentence, or in the post position, i.e., after the main sentence. There is a general tendency in both compared languages: in analytical English, more than two-thirds of the adverbial clauses, on average, of the most various modifications, are in the structure of a complex sentence in postposition, i.e., after the principal clause; in the agglutinative Kyrgyz language, more than three-quarters of the adverbial, on average, of the most various modifications are in the structure of a complex sentence in the preposition, i.e., before the main sentence. It was also revealed that the Kyrgyz complex adverbial clauses could have an incomplete subject-predicate structure in one of its constituent parts, and, accordingly, express a reduced predication – and at the level of the entire content of the complex subordinate: the Kyrgyz complex adverbial clauses can explicate a complete proposition in this case. The content structures of English and Kyrgyz complex sentences with adverbial clauses are motivated by a similar modality.