A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ROLE OF SUFFIXES IN THE ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

This study aims to analyze the role of suffixes in both languages, to find similiarities, differences, and describing the roles of the English and Uzbek suffixes. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative research and linguistic methodology. There are two objects used as a data in this study, (1) English short story entitled “Berenice”, (2) Uzbek short story entitled “Horror” (“Daxshat”). The results of this study indicate: (1) The role of suffixes in English is following the stem and forming a new derivative in different part of speech or different word by changing lexico-grammatical meaning of the word and the role of Uzbek suffixes are the same, (2) There are four types of English suffixes namely nominal, verbal, adjective, and adverbial suffixes, (3) The Uzbek language also possess the same number of suffixes namely forming, verb, adjective, noun and adverb