COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MOST PRODUCTIVE AFFIXES AND SUFFIXES IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK PHYSICS TERMS

The morphological productivity of affixes, especially suffixes and prefixes, in Uzbek and English physics lexicons is analyzed and compared in this article. In a specialized field like physics, productivity is the extent to which a morphological process may produce new concepts. We show both similarities and differences by combining examples from scientific vocabulary formation with insights from morphological studies of English and Uzbek languages. Affixation patterns in English scientific terminology (e.g., -logy, -meter) and their equivalents or analogies in Uzbek physics words (e.g., -lik, -chi) are specifically examined. The findings shed light on typological distinctions, semantic transparency, and consequences for computational linguistics, scientific communication, and education.