DERIVATIONAL FEATURES OF NOUN NEOLOGISMS IN MODERN UZBEK

This article investigates the derivational features of noun neologisms actively used in the lexical system of modern Uzbek. The need to name new concepts emerging as a result of social, political, economic, scientific, technological, and cultural changes has led to the continuous renewal of the Uzbek vocabulary. In this process, particular importance is attached to the ways in which new noun lexemes are formed, their derivational patterns, and their degree of productivity. The study analyzes the formation of noun neologisms through affixation, compounding, the derivational activation of borrowed bases, and semantic development. Particular attention is paid to the combination of borrowed bases with native Uzbek word-forming affixes, the increasing number of compound nouns containing international components, and the growing productivity of certain derivational patterns in modern Uzbek. The findings demonstrate that the formation of new noun lexemes results from the interaction between the internal resources of the language and external linguistic factors.