THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VERBAL MORPHOLOGY IN ENGLISH AND KARAKALPAK LANGUAGES

Abstract:

This article presents a detailed comparative analysis of verbal morphology in English and Karakalpak languages. The study focuses on the morphological expression of core grammatical categories of the verb, including tense, aspect, mood, voice, negation, and person–number agreement. English, as a predominantly analytic language, encodes most verbal meanings through auxiliary verbs and syntactic constructions, whereas Karakalpak, as an agglutinative Turkic language, expresses grammatical meanings mainly through suffixation within the verb structure. Through systematic comparison and illustrative examples, the article demonstrates how grammatical information is distributed differently across verbal forms in the two languages while fulfilling similar communicative functions. The findings highlight typological contrasts that have significant implications for contrastive linguistics, translation, and language teaching, particularly in the context of English–Karakalpak bilingualism.