This article explores the semantic-functional domain of aspect in Uzbek and analyzes how verb predicates express aspectual nuances through morphology, lexical semantics, auxiliary constructions, and contextual factors. Aspect is one of the most essential grammatical-semantic categories in the world’s languages, reflecting how an action, event, or state unfolds in time. Unlike tense-which situates an event within chronological time—aspect characterizes its internal temporal structure, such as completeness, continuity, repetition, or inception. In the Uzbek language, aspect is not encoded by a single grammatical category.

Lexical units, derivational morphology, adverbials, auxiliary verbs

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