PROCESSES OF LEXICAL RENEWAL IN UZBEK-LANGUAGE INTERNET DISCOURSE: A CORPUS-BASED STUDY OF NEOLOGISMS AND BORROWED VOCABULARY

Abstract

The article examines mechanisms of lexical renewal in Uzbek-language internet discourse based on corpus and web-corpus data. The object of analysis comprises neologisms and borrowings (primarily Anglicisms) functioning in digital communication. The study proposes an operational corpus-based framework for identifying lexical innovations (frequency and contextual analysis, register comparison, collocational profiling, and markers of morphological adaptation). The main types of innovations are described (direct borrowings, hybrid derivatives, calques, semantic neologisms, and graphic variants), and characteristic patterns of integration of borrowed vocabulary into the agglutinative morphology of Uzbek are demonstrated. The methodological framework relies on standard corpus-linguistic procedures (KWIC concordance, frequency lists, and collocation analysis). The results show that internet discourse constitutes a highly productive environment for the accelerated consolidation of lexical innovations, while the degree of their “naturalization” can be reliably diagnosed through morphological and syntactic evidence observable in corpus contexts.