Linguacultural

analysis of the
category of
possessiveness in
English and Uzbek
language
 Category of possessiveness
Possessiveness is the connection between two objects,
expressing possession or owning of one to another with
the means of language units. These connections are
called “possessive and possessors” and their units are
called possessive constructions. Usually human is
considered as possessor. Therefore, possessing of the
object or owning any object can be understood in
possessive relations.

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One can witness the culture of
English and Uzbek nation with
the national-coloring
phraseological units expressed
by the category of
possessiveness.

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 Possessiveness in Uzbek language
Posessiveness

Posessive Posessive
inflections pronouns

Posessive- Inflection of
possesor belonging -ники Syntactic-
relations with the meaning of semantic ways:
posession

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 Possessiveness in English language
Possessiveness

Syntactic way With ‘s form

With With possessive

preposition -of With preposition -to pronoun

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Known that British country is a
monarchy and here can be seen
the units showing this
monarchical culture of this
country in the context:
For example; My Fair Lady, Your
Highness, His Master’s Voice.
 Naming with
possessive units the
names of stores,
restaurants,
churches, colleges
with names of their
owners or with names
of their profession:

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 The grocer’s, the
chemist’s, Luigi’s.
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> Features of Uzbek nation: Possessive
relations can be formed by possessive
pronouns and with дир short form of
notional verb
> “бор бўлмоқ” (to be)
> -Мен Зарифаман, биз инсондирмиз!

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Possessiveness can be
expressed with the
notions of respect
which characterizes
one of the features of
Uzbek nations ;
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хурматли
президентимиз”
(“Four respectful
president”),
“мехрибон отамиз”
(“our kind father”)
Possessiveness can also be used in expressing
irony in the Uzbek culture

1. “taqdirimiz shu ekan”

2. “xa, endi dilimizdagi ko’rinib
turibdi.”

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