ACADEMICIA: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 7

Structure of folk proverbs (example of uzbek and german proverbs)

Basic Doctoral Student Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Email id: farruxshod@mail.ru

Online published on 27 August, 2020.

Abstract

The article provides a comparative study of the structure of folk proverbs. The views and opinions of Uzbek and world scientists have been compared, analyzed and come to certain conclusions. Folk proverbs are reclassified in terms of component speech. In terms of structure, the focus is on the semantic relationship between simple descriptive, compound descriptive, and complex descriptive sentences. The issues studied in the article are analyzed on the example of Uzbek and German folk proverbs and conclusions are drawn.

Keywords

Proverb Structure, Simple Descriptive Proverbs, Compound Descriptive Proverbs, Complex Descriptive Proverbs, Simple Contradiction, Complex Contradiction, Proverb “Topic” And “Comment”