“LEXICAL-SEMANTIC CLASSIFICATION OF VERBS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS”

Abstract

This study investigates the lexical-semantic classification of verbs in English and Uzbek, focusing on semantic categories, morphological mechanisms, and cross-linguistic contrasts. Using a contrastive linguistic approach, the research analyzes how each language encodes actions, states, processes, perception, communication, and causation. English, as an Indo-European language, predominantly relies on syntactic constructions and auxiliary verbs to express aspect and causativity, whereas Uzbek, a Turkic agglutinative language, employs rich derivational and inflectional morphology to convey subtle semantic distinctions. The study identifies both universal semantic categories and language-specific features, highlighting differences in morphological marking, aspectual expression, and semantic granularity. These findings have significant implications for translation studies, second-language teaching, and computational linguistics, providing a framework for understanding cross-linguistic verb correspondences and divergences.