A Study on the Characteristics of Complex Sentences in Uzbek-Korean Translations

Abstract

Uzbek and Korean, two agglutinative languages belonging to the Altaic family, do not differ much when it comes to macroscopic aspects, such as the sentence formation method or the constituent order. However, there is a difference in the sentence categorisation method and the complex sentence formation method. Korean grammar divides sentences into simple and complex, and complex sentences are then sorted into conjunctive sentences, where two equal sentences are joined together, and into embedded sentences, where one sentence includes the other as one of its constituents. On the contrary, Uzbek grammar splits sentences into simple, complex simple, and complex. Complex simple sentences are similar to Korean embedded sentences in that one sentence is included in the other as its constituent, but in Uzbek they are in fact classified as simple sentences rather than complex sentences.