MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VERBS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES
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Comparative Morphology, Verbal Categories, Agglutination, Analytism, Suffixation, English Verbs, Uzbek Verbs, Contrastive Typology.Abstract
This paper presents a rigorous contrastive morphological analysis of verbs in the English and Uzbek languages. Representing two distinct linguistic families—Indo-European (Germanic branch) and Turkic—English and Uzbek exhibit fundamentally divergent structural approaches to verbal morphology. English, operating as an analytical-inflectional language, relies extensively on syntactic configurations, auxiliary markers, and restricted inflectional paradigms to express verbal categories. In sharp contrast, Uzbek is a highly agglutinative language characterized by a strict linear sequence of monosemantic, stable suffixes attached to the verbal root, resulting in a vast, complex synthetic paradigm. This study systematically analyzes the architectural boundaries of the verb in both languages, evaluating the expressions of tense, aspect, mood, voice, and person-number agreements. Utilizing structural, comparative-typological, and functional-semantic methods, we demonstrate how analytical functional equivalence in English maps onto the rich synthetic agglutinative systems of Uzbek. The findings carry critical implications for comparative linguistics, linguistic typology, and foreign language pedagogy within the context of higher education in Uzbekistan.
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