HYBRID NEOLOGISMS IN THE UZBEK LANGUAGE: A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH-UZBEK LANGUAGE COMBINATIONS

Abstract

This article analyzes hybrid neologisms in the Uzbek language, particularly English-Uzbek language combinations that are actively formed under the influence of globalization, internet discourse, social networks, digital technologies, marketing, education, and youth communication. Hybrid neologisms are lexical or phraseological units created through the combination of elements belonging to different languages. In modern Uzbek, such units often appear as English lexical bases combined with Uzbek affixes, auxiliary verbs, case markers, plural forms, or syntactic patterns. The purpose of the study is to identify the structural models of English-Uzbek hybrid neologisms, explain their morphological and semantic adaptation, and evaluate their role in the development of modern Uzbek vocabulary. Descriptive, structural, morphological, semantic, and contextual analysis methods were used in the research. The results show that hybrid neologisms are not accidental mixtures of languages, but systematic formations based on productive linguistic models. They reflect the interaction between borrowed lexical material and native Uzbek grammatical mechanisms. The study concludes that hybrid neologisms enrich the Uzbek lexical system while also raising issues of language norm, stylistic appropriateness, and terminological stability.