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

b) The English and the Russian and the Uzbek languages differ significantly in the means of expressing syntactical connections in a phrase. In Russian and Uzbek all the three ways of connection are used. In English, the use of government and agreement is restricted to the phrases with pronouns.

• b) The English and the Russian and the Uzbek languages differ significantly in the means of expressing syntactical connections in a phrase. In Russian and Uzbek all the three ways of connection are used. In English, the use of government and agreement is restricted to the phrases with pronouns.
• E.g. to see him; these books
• In most cases, the elements of the phrase are combined by adjoining.
• In English attributive phrases denoting objects in numerical order, the adjunct expressed by a cardinal numeral is in postposition to the kernel expressed by a noun. e.g. Room 15. In the corresponding Russian and Uzbek phrases, the adjunct expressed by an ordinal numeral is in preposition to the headword. e.g. пятнадцатая комната, ўн бешинчи хона.

General differences of word-combinations of three compared languages can be seen in these clusters below: In English:

In Russian:

In Uzbek: