THE CONCEPT OF LEXICAL SYSTEMICITY IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES AND LEXICAL UNITS IN IDEOGRAPHIC DICTIONARIES

Abstract

This study explores the notion of lexical systemicity within the English and Uzbek languages and examines how lexical units are structured and represented in ideographic dictionaries. Drawing on comparative linguistics and lexicographic theory, the paper first defines lexical systemicity as the dynamic interrelation of vocabulary items within a language system. It then analyzes the role of semantic fields and thematic groupings in ideographic dictionaries, illustrating how such resources reveal underlying systemic patterns. Through a contrastive approach, differences and similarities between English and Uzbek lexicons are highlighted, with special attention to morphological complexity, semantic granularity, and cultural specificity. The findings indicate that while both languages exhibit coherent systemic organization, Uzbek’s agglutinative morphology yields more granular subfields, whereas English ideographic entries tend toward broader semantic clusters. Implications for dictionary design, language teaching, and further lexicographic research are discussed.