HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF INTENSIFIERS IN ENGLISH AND UZBEK: A DIACHRONIC COMPARATIVE STUDY

This article explores how intensifiers—the words we use to emphasize or soften what we say—have evolved over time in both English and Uzbek. Because people constantly look for new and powerful ways to express their feelings, these words tend to lose their original strength quickly and get replaced by new ones through a process called pragmatic bleaching. By looking back at the history of both languages from their early stages to modern times, this study shows how their underlying structures guide this change. English, as an analytical language, relies heavily on independent adverbs, while Uzbek uses its agglutinative features to combine both borrowed terms and morphological techniques like word doubling. By comparing these two completely different language families, the paper sheds light on the common thinking patterns behind human emphasis and provides a clear, reliable resource for modern comparative linguistics.