It should be noted that some sources distinguish 3 or even 4 categories of
case in modern English: 1. nominative; 2. accusative; 3. genitive or 1. subjective;
2. objective; 3.
possessive; 4. vocative. This kind of distinction is based on a
purely syntactical function of parts of speech but not their morphological ones.
Moreover, some parts of speech have separate forms in case categories. So, in
English, nouns do not change their forms in any of the cases other than the
possessive case (
Tom`s
). Pronouns, however,
have separate forms in the
possessive (
he/his
) and the objective cases (
he/him
).
Category of number
Grammatical category of number is inquired both in English and in Uzbek.
This category expresses linguistic representation of the objective category of
quantity.
The category of number, reflecting the quantitative relations between real
objects, is tightly related to the class of nouns. It is realized through the opposition
of two forms: plural form and singular form, and depends on the implicit
grammatical meaning of countableness and uncountableness. So,
the number
category is realized only within the subclass of countable nouns. However, this
category has a different representation in world languages. So, for example, there
are languages in which the category of a number is expressed not only by a plural,
but also by a dual, a triple and a quadral number. Tolomako, Lihir, Manam and
Tok Pisin (though only in its pronouns) have trial number
12
. Whereas in some
languages the grammatical distinction between singular and plural does not exist
at all: American Indian languages.
In English and Uzbek, the category of number is represented by the semes
of singularity and plurality, which find their expression in the singular and plural
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forms. In both languages the plurality seme is represented by the morphemes of
the numbers:
-s (-es)
in English and
-lar
in Uzbek.
However, some differences in the representation of the
singular and plural
forms nouns occur as well. Being flectional language English can express the
plural form by internal flexion:
man-men, mouse-mice,
etc. One more original
characteristics of English is that significant group
of nouns in which only the
plurality of seme is represented, which finds its expression in the corresponding
morphemes of the number mentioned above. These are primarily nouns denoting
paired or compound objects:
scissors, panties, glasses, pajamas, gloves,
binoculars headphones,
etc. Also, there are some nouns that are used only in
singular form:
money, public, work;
some nouns are used only in the singular,
even though they
have
the plurality morphemes
-s
:
mathematics, measles, news.
In both English and Uzbek there is a group of nouns that are used only in
singular form, they are the nouns denoting abstract notions, names of professions
(spheres), names of products, chemical elements:
love-muhabbat, agriculture-
qishloq xo`jaligi, flour-un, iron-temir,
etc. Also, pronouns and verbs are
conjugated in number in both languages, but as an agglutinative language –
Uzbek has a more complicated categorization of verbs in number.
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