THE GENITIVE CASE IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY
Keywords:
genitive case, possession, Uzbek language, English language, morphological marking, syntactic structure, alienable vs. inalienable possession, sociolinguistic functions, cross-linguistic comparison, grammatical typologyAbstract
This article explores the morphological and syntactic expression of the genitive case in Uzbek and English, highlighting structural and functional differences shaped by their typological divergence. While Uzbek, as an agglutinative language, marks possession morphologically through suffixes, English, an analytic language, relies primarily on syntactic means such as possessive pronouns and the ’s clitic. The genitive case serves not only as a grammatical marker of possession but also as a reflection of deeper cultural, cognitive, and pragmatic values. Through a contrastive approach, the study examines how each language encodes ownership, kinship, part-whole relations, and social hierarchy in possessive constructions.
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