WORD ORDER FLEXIBILITY IN ENGLISH COMPARED TO UZBEK/ RUSSIAN
His article explores the degree of word order flexibility in English in comparison with Uzbek and Russian. Although English
generally follows a rigid subject–verb–object structure, Uzbek and Russian demonstrate substantially greater freedom in syntactic
arrangement owing to their rich case systems and agglutinative or inflectional morphology. The study highlights how
grammatical markers in Uzbek and Russian allow meaningful rearrangement without semantic loss, while English relies more
heavily on structural position to convey grammatical relations. By examining structural, functional, and communicative factors,
the article outlines how typological differences shape information flow, emphasis, and pragmatic nuance in each language.
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