Comparativetypolog y

The root, according to its positional content of the term (i.e. border area between prefix and suffix) is obligatory for any word while affixes are not obligatory. Therefore one and the same morphemic segment can be used now as an affix, now as a root.

E.g. ‘out’ - a root word (preposition, adverb, verbal postposition, adjective, noun, verb);

‘throughout’ -a composite word where ‘out’ of the roots;

‘outing’ - a two morpheme word in which ‘out’ is a root and ‘ing’ is a suffix;

‘outlook, outline’ - words in which ‘out’ is a prefix;

‘look out, shut out, time-out’ words in which ‘out’ is a suffix;

The abstract complete model of the English word is as follows: ‘prefix-root-lexical suffix-grammatical suffix’ (or ‘Pr-Rt-Ls-Grs). e.g.: un-import-ant-ness, out-look-er-s

The model of modern Uzbek word can be drawn similarly to the English one, i.e. ‘Pr-Rt-LxS-GrS’ ,