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Abstract
The present study is a comparison-typological analysis of the conceptualfrastructures of English and Uzbek verb typology. Through assessment of structural and semantic features, including morpho-syntactic complexity, transitivity, tense–aspect–mood, voice, and lexical aspect, the study finds both cross-linguistic tendencies and language-specific solutions in verbal realization. Results tell us that English, as an analytic language, relies on syntactic constructions and auxiliaries while Uzbek, as an agglutinative language, encodes grammatical categories morphologically through affixation. In shedding light on the relationship between typological features and grammatical expression, the results have important implications for theoretical linguistics, language pedagogy, and translation studies. An extension of this analysis would be to undertake a quantitative approach, as well as including more languages, which may unveil greater cross-linguistic regularities in the verb types used.