1 republic of uzbekistan ministry of higher and secondary specialised education

native languages
Activity 2. Explain the given examples according to word structure 
and word order in the sentence. 
e.g.: 
Uzbek U xonani tozalayotgan edi [Verb-final language] 
He/she [subject] the room [Object+Acc] tidying up
[Past 
continuous] was [auxiliary verb].
English “She 
was
tidying up the room” (Verb-initial language) 
(Nouns marked for case + Verbs marked for tense) 
Uzbek U qalam
ni
sindir
di
(SOV) 
English “He broke the pen” (SVO) 
Uzbek (Men) stol ustida 5 ta olma(
lar
)
ni
ko’r
yapman
.
English “I see five apple
s
on the table”
Uzbek (Biz) sen
ga
ishona
miz
English “We believe in you” 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Synthetically 
Analytically 
Affixation 
Phoneme 
inter-
change 
The 
change of 
the place 
of 
the 
stress in 
the word 
Suppletio
n 
Combinatio
n of function 
word 
with 
notional 
word 
Order 
of 
words 
in 
the 
sentence 
Inn
er 
fus
io
n
Ou
ter 
fus
io
n

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Activity 3. Complete the table. 
Categories
English
Uzbek
Nouns marked for case 
Nouns marked for number 
(sing./pl.) 
Verbs marked for tense 
Verbs agree with subject in 
person 
Verbs agree with subject in 
number 
Word order 
e.g.; SVO 
SOV 
Verb-initial/ verb-final 
Type of language 
Activity 4. Make an investigation and prepare English parts of 
speech in the Tree-diagram.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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8. TYPOLOGY OF WORD FORMATION IN THE ENGLISH 
AND NATIVE LANGUAGES 
 
Activity 1. Give examples according to the types of word formation. 
 
Activity 2.
Are these statements yes (√) or no (×)?.
1. _____ Sounds produced by animals, birds, insects, such as: to hiss, 
to buzz, to bark, to moo, to twitter etc; лаять, мычать, щебетать, 
вовулламоқ, миёвламоқ, сайрамоқ. 
2. _____ Stress interchange has in all compared languages.
3. _____ Sound imitation is the way of word-building when a word is 
formed by imitating different sounds. 
4. _____ Sound interchange is one of the ways of productive word 
formation. 
5. _____ Sounds produced by human beings, such as : to splash, to 
rustle, to clatter, to bubble, to ding-dong, to tinkle etc; звякать, звенеть, 
греметь, тақилламоқ, шитирламоқ, тарақ-туруқ. 
6. _____ In blends 2 ways of word-building are combined. 
7. _____ Back formation is the way of word-building when a word is 
formed by dropping the final morpheme to form a new word. 
Ty
pe 
of word
-f
orma
ti
on
Phonological 
Morphological 
(affixation)
Compounding of 
words
Compounding of 
stems
Morphological 
–
syntactical
Lexical-semantical
Abbreviation

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8. _____ One of the Russian non-morphological ways of word 
formation is semantic, which can express the similar function with 
Uzbek semantic way of forming words. 
9. _____ The last distinctive feature of Uzbek language word formation 
way is composition, which cannot be found in other compared 
languages. 
10. _____ The main way of word formation in Russian is considered 
compounding, while in English and Uzbek it is derivation.