THE FIELD ORGANIZATION OF METEOROLOGICAL AND ATMOSPHERIC-GEOGRAPHICAL TERMINOLOGY IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A COMPARATIVE STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Abstract

This study investigates the field organization of meteorological and atmospheric-geographical terminology in English and Uzbek within the framework of linguistic field theory. Drawing upon Saussurean structuralism and subsequent developments in European and Russian linguistics, the research examines paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, nucleus–periphery structuring, and cross-level interactions across phonological, morphological, and lexical-semantic domains. The comparative analysis demonstrates that while English predominantly employs prefixation and derivational morphology to encode spatial and atmospheric distinctions, Uzbek, as an agglutinative language, relies primarily on suffixation and syntactic constructions. The findings reveal both typologically universal mechanisms and language-specific strategies in the formation and distribution of meteorological terminology. The study contributes to comparative linguistics and terminological theory by demonstrating how linguistic structure, cognitive categorization, and cultural perception interact within a unified nominative field.