Semantic Activation in Uzbek: A Corpus-Based Model of Potentiality, Virtuality and Actuality

This study introduces a corpus-based semantic model for analyzing linguistic units in Uzbek, grounded in the triadic framework of potentiality, virtuality, and actuality. Drawing from cognitive linguistics and discourse theory, the model captures how lexical items transition from latent existence to contextual activation in real speech. Through annotated text analysis and semantic energy mapping, the paper identifies linguistic indicators of activation and proposes a methodology for computational annotation. The findings offer a foundation for developing annotated corpora and AI-based language models for Uzbek, a low-resource language.