Collocational Characteristics Of The Concept “Wealth” In Uzbek And Russian Language Corpora

Abstract

This article presents a comparative analysis of the collocational features of lexical units verbalizing the concept of “wealth” in Uzbek and Russian corpora. The study focuses on Uzbek lexical units such as “boylik”, “boy”, “mulk”, “mol-dunyo”, “davlat” and “badavlat”, as well as Russian units such as “богатство”, “богатый”, “имущество”, “достаток” and “состояние”. The main purpose is to identify stable and statistically significant combinations and to determine the semantic and cognitive components of the concept of “wealth” activated by these combinations. The Uzbek corpus provides search functions for phrases, lemmas and concordances, creating a basis for the analysis of the collocational field of the concept. The Russian National Corpus provides a dedicated collocation search and statistical measures such as Tscore, logDice, MI³ and Loglikelihood [1]. The analysis demonstrates that in both languages the concept of “wealth” is represented through collocations associated with material prosperity, property, economic resources, social status, spiritual values and natural resources. At the same time, Uzbek data demonstrate a particularly strong connection between wealth and concepts such as “baraka”, “rizq” and “farovonlik”, whereas Russian data more actively reveal associations with luxury, capital, social status and economic opportunities.