ACTIONAL AND PRAGMALINGUISTIC PROPERTIES OF MOTION VERBS ACROSS TYPOLOGICALLY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES

Abstract

This article examines the actional semantics of motion verbs in the Uzbek language with a particular focus on the categories of boundedness, unboundedness, and dual actional characteristics. Drawing on theoretical approaches developed in Turkic and general linguistics, the study analyzes how motion verbs form distinct actional groups depending on the presence or absence of an internal boundary and directional meaning. Special attention is paid to compound verbs and analytic constructions, which demonstrate that actional meaning in Uzbek is not only a semantic phenomenon but also interacts closely with grammatical realization. The analysis shows that unbounded motion verbs primarily express the manner of movement and function as converbial forms without forming analytic aspectual constructions.