Reciprocity Of Zeugma In German And Uzbek

Abstract

This study investigates zeugma as a syntactic and semantic phenomenon in German and Uzbek from a contrastive perspective, with particular attention to its interaction with reciprocity. The traditional description of zeugma exists as a stylistic device which links incompatible meanings through a grammatically correct sentence structure. The research shows that Uzbek zeugma functions through grammaticalized reciprocity and collective action but German zeugma operates through valency conflicts and lexical-semantic distinctions. The research demonstrates that Uzbek zeugmatic constructions use plural and reciprocal morphological markers to create predicate compression and valency expansion through structural-semantic and contrastive and corpus-based analysis methods.