Sentence connectors in Uzbek

The grammatical elements that connect the sentences in different ways by making various meaning relations between them are called sentence connectors The sentence connectors might be a particle, clitic or word. These elements, which form new and constructionally complex types of sentences, perform important functions in both sentences and text structures. For this reason, the comprehensive lexical and syntactic analysis of sentence connectors is important in terms of analyzing the structure of language. The aim of this study is to determine the sentence connectors in Uzbek, analyse their structural and functional roles in both sentences and text formations. The study material of this thesis consists of eight novels representing the Uzbek literary language and chosen in the first phase of the study. Firstly, these eight novels were scanned and the sentence connectors in Uzbek were determined. Later, the these connectors were examined in terms of their structures, origins, usages and functions. This study consists of four chapters. In the introductory chapter, subject, purpose, method, scope and limitations and literature summary of this study are explained. In the first chapter, the basic concepts are discussed. The second chapter is the main part in which sentence connectors in Uzbek are examined. In this chapter, the sentence connectors were discussed in two groups: "coordinative sentence connectors" and "correlative sentence connectors". And the conclusion covers the results obtained from the evaluation of the data gathered throughout the research process. It is hoped that the results of the thesis will provide collective and detailed data for various research areas such as grammar or text-linguistics studies and also contribute to Turkish and Uzbek linguistics.