Lecture 10. Typology of a word combination/phrase in english and native languages

LECTURE 12. TYPOLOGY OF A WORD COMBINATION/PHRASE IN ENGLISH AND NATIVE LANGUAGES

Key points for discussion:

• Definitions of word combinations/phrases in compared languages
• Structure and classification of word combinations of English, Russian and Uzbek languages.
• Criteria of connection of words in word combinations.

Recommended literature:

• 1. Yusupov U.K. Contrastive linguistics of the English and Uzbek languages. Tashkent, 2013.
• 2. Аракин В.Д. Сравнительная типология английского и русского языков. Ленинград, 1979.
• 3. Валгина Н.С. Современный русский язык. М., 2003.
• 4. Мухитдинова Х., Худойберганова Д., Умиров И., Жиянов Н., Юсупова Т. Ҳозирги ўзбек адабий тили Т., 2004.
• 5. Соловьёва Н. Н. Весь русский язык в таблицах: от фонетики до синтаксиса М., 2009.

Ilyish gave the following definition to the phrase “every combination of two or more words which is a grammatical unit but is not an analytical form of some word” is equivalence to the term “word combination”.

• Ilyish gave the following definition to the phrase “every combination of two or more words which is a grammatical unit but is not an analytical form of some word” is equivalence to the term “word combination”.

The word combination is the main syntactic unit. The smallest word combination consists of two members, whereas the largest word combination may theoretically be indefinitely large.

• The word combination is the main syntactic unit. The smallest word combination consists of two members, whereas the largest word combination may theoretically be indefinitely large.
• In Russian, it is described as non-communicative units served for the concretization of object naming, actions, features and etc.
• In Uzbek it is defined as a wider conception than a word, expressing description of object and action and even identifying the object of the action. Distinctively, as a substitution of word expressed with word combinations is called descriptive expressions (тасвирий ифода) in Uzbek.
• Descriptive expressions are used for clarification of word meaning, making the text more literary, and avoiding repetition. They basically exist in nouns. E.g., пахта – оқ олтин (cotton – white gold), нефть – қора олтин (oil – black gold), маккажўхори – дала маликаси (corn – queen of field).