This article explores the conceptual structuring of causality in the English language through cognitive and functional linguistics. Causality is interpreted as a dynamic conceptual model that reflects how human cognition perceives and verbalizes causal relations between events. The research examines analytical causative constructions involving make, let, have, get, and cause, emphasizing their role in representing event-relational meaning in discourse. The study argues that causality in English is realized not only by morphological and lexical means but also through syntactic patterns and contextual configurations that manifest conceptual motivation. The results demonstrate the interdependence of grammatical form, semantic function, and conceptual structure, expanding the understanding of causality as a multidimensional linguistic category and opening new prospects for contrastive studies with agglutinative languages such as Uzbek.  

Conceptual structuring, causality, cognitive linguistics, functional grammar

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