COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURE OF TECHNICAL TERMS IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES

Abstract

This study offers a comparative analysis of the morphological structure of technical terminology in Uzbek and English. While both languages have long interacted with global science and technology, their strategies for coining, borrowing, and adapting technical terms diverge in ways that reveal deeper typological and sociolinguistic differences. Drawing on a 5,000-item parallel corpus of contemporary engineering, information-technology, and biomedical texts, the research explores affixation patterns, compounding principles, and borrowing mechanisms. A mixed-methods approach combining corpus statistics with qualitative morphosemantic parsing demonstrates that Uzbek, typologically agglutinative, relies heavily on transparent affixational chains and productive native stems, whereas English, typologically analytic, favours minimal affixation and extensive compounding with classical roots. Despite increasing English influence, Uzbek preserves native affixational morphology in roughly two-thirds of new technical coinages. The findings refine current theories of technical lexicon formation in contact settings and provide guidance for terminographers, translators, and educators engaged in STEM communication.