The peculiarities of the means of plurality expressing in the english and uzbek languages

Literature review 
The quantity category in English language (McKay, 2006; Moltmann, 2003), in 
Uzbek language (Gulamov, 1944; Safarov, 2004; Zikrillaev,1990; Mamadjanova, 
2009, 2016) and in comparison of different languages (Rotge, 2009; Menovshikov, 
1970; Tuhtakhodjaeva, 1986; Malihina, 2011) was the object of the researches. Thanks 
to study of peculiarities of quantity category in multisystem languages allowed to 
scholars to singling out the universals and categorizing the specific characteristic, 
functions and properties of quantity means of expression. At the same time, there are 

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“PEDAGOGS” 
 international research journal ISSN: 
2181-4027
_SJIF: 
4.995
 
www.pedagoglar.uz
 


Volume-23, Issue-2, December - 2022
 
75 
valuable research papers which gave evidence about variety of nominalizing 
quantifiers (Moltmann, 2003) and plural predicate forms (McKay, 2006). 
Thus, a lot of lexicographical and linguistic studies were devoted to analysis of 
singularity and plurality means of expressing in English and other languages. In 
attitude to the Uzbek language studies it is necessary to point out the research by A. 
Gulamov, where the scholar identified thirteen meanings of the Uzbek plural affix ‘’-
lar’’ bring in his book devoted to Uzbek quantity category description (1944).
According to the well-known scholar in Uzbekistan, plurality can be means of quantity, 
type, respect, mockery, reinforcement, generalization, approximation, limitation and 
so on (1944). Another Uzbek linguist F.Safarov (2004) also identified a number of 
linguistic features of plurality referenced to Gulamov. The quantity category of verbs 
was the object of investigation in the works by Zikrillaev (1990); Mamadjanova (2009, 
2016). The valuable article written by Z.T.Tohtakhodjaeva was devoted to study of 
quantitative meaning of the English derived adjectives (1986). Another linguist 
L.Malihina also revealed the main ways of expressing category of singularity and 
plurality in the English, Russian and Tadjik languages (2011). The analysis of scientific 
literature shows that there has been not any research devoted to the comparative and 
contrastive study of forms of expressing plurality in English and Uzbek languages.