SEMANTICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF TOPONYMS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK LANGUAGES

The study of geographical names is carried out by the special science which is called “toponymy”. Toponymy is a special branch of linguistics, because any noun is a word, according to “place names” is part of such a language system and obeys its basic laws. How to name places is primarily determined by the needs of a particular stage of society. This article portrays toponyms in English and Uzbek languages. It also discusses some of the research that has emerged the data about toponyms that have analysed in morphological point of view in both languages. By applying to contrastive method, the toponyms are also discussed. This article describes the importance of toponyms in linguistics, their semantic features, as well as a comparative analysis of Uzbek and English toponyms.