Linguistic analysis of the object clauses
Linguistic analysis of the object clauses

Summary/Abstract: This study provides a comparative linguistic analysis of object subordinate clauses in modern English and Azerbaijani. It examines the structural and semantic criteria that distinguish subordination from coordination, emphasizing that the number of predicative centers, rather than sentence length, defines syntactic complexity.The research classifies these clauses into pure object and mixed-type (syncretic) constructions, analyzing the formal markers used in both languages, such as: English: that, if, whether, lest, and conjunctive words (who, what); Azerbaijani: ki, suffixes (-mı⁴, -sa²), and conjunctive words (kim, hər nə).The analysis identifies the semantic groups of head words (verbs of speech, thought, and perception) that govern these clauses and highlights the role of intonation and syntactic synonymy in both languages. The findings offer a theoretical framework for understanding hierarchical syntactic unity, contributing to contrastive linguistics and translation studies between English and Azerbaijani.

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