The article examines structural-semantic integration and functional-pragmatic properties of polypredicative constructions in English and Uzbek. Polypredicativity is treated as the interaction of two or more predicative centres within a single communicative structure. The paper compares the formal mechanisms through which causal, conditional, temporal, purposive, contrastive and explanatory relations are encoded and shows how such structures serve pragmatic functions such as information focusing, presupposition, evaluation, justification and addressee orientation. The analysis demonstrates that the semantic relations are largely universal, while their formal realization is conditioned by the typological properties of English as a predominantly analytic language and Uzbek as an agglutinative language.
polypredicativity
predicative centre
structural-semantic integration
pragmatic intention
complex sentence
subordination
coordination
discourse
English
Uzbek