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.本文分析并比较了乌兹别克语与英语物理词汇中词缀（尤其是后缀与前缀）的形态能产性。在物理学这类专门领域中，形态能产性指某一形态过程能够生成新词汇概念的程度。本文结合科学词汇构词实例与英、乌兹别克语形态学研究的理论视角，揭示了二者在形态构词上的共性与差异。本文还专门考察了英语科学术语中的词缀构词模式（如-logy、-meter），以及乌兹别克语物理词汇中与之对应的或类似的词缀（如-lik、-chi）。本研究结果可为类型学差异、语义透明度相关研究提供启发，同时对计算语言学、科学传播与教育领域具有实践参考价值。