Analysis of Semantic Relations in Adverbial Phrases: Uzbek-Turkish Comparative Study
Year: 2026
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: This study examines the semantic relations expressed through adverbial phrases in Uzbek and Turkish, two prominent members of the Turkic language family. Through comparative analysis, we demonstrate that while both languages share fundamental semantic categories and structural patterns inherited from Proto-Turkic, they exhibit notable divergences resulting from distinct historical, geographical, and sociolinguistic developments over centuries of separate evolution. The analysis covers a broad range of adverbial types, including temporal, spatial, manner, causal, and degree adverbials, revealing systematic correspondences alongside language-specific innovations unique to each variety. Special attention is given to how contact with neighboring languages—Persian and Arabic in the case of Uzbek, and Greek, French, and other European languages in the case of Turkish–has shaped the adverbial systems in ways that diverge from their shared Proto-Turkic heritage. The findings contribute to a deeper understanding of both the unity and diversity within the Turkic language family, offering implications for comparative Turkic linguistics, typological research, and language pedagogy. This work ultimately argues that adverbial phrases serve as a particularly revealing diagnostic for tracing both inherited grammatical structure and borrowed or innovated features across genetically related languages.
Author: Mahliyo Eshmamatova
Institution: Denau Institute of Entrepreneurship and Pedagogy
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7202275615