SYNTAGMATIC AND PARADIGMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF VERBLESS SENTENCES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK

Abstract

The present study investigates the syntagmatic and paradigmatic characteristics of verbless sentences in English and Uzbek. Verbless sentences constitute an important syntactic phenomenon that enables speakers and writers to express complete communicative meanings without the use of an explicit finite verb. The research aims to identify the structural organization of verbless constructions, analyze their semantic functions, and compare their syntagmatic and paradigmatic properties across the two languages. The study employs comparative, descriptive, structural, and functional-semantic methods to examine examples collected from literary texts and authentic language materials. The findings demonstrate that verbless sentences in both English and Uzbek perform important communicative and stylistic functions. However, Uzbek exhibits greater structural flexibility and a wider range of nominal predication patterns, whereas English relies more heavily on contextual interpretation and stylistic motivation. The results contribute to comparative syntax, structural linguistics, and functional-semantic studies