International Journal of Social Science And Human Research ISSN(print): 2644-0679, ISSN(online): 2644-0695 Volume 05 Issue 03 March 2022 DOI: 10.47191/ijsshr/v5-i3-43, Impact factor- 5.871 Page No: 1040-1046 1040 Page www.ijsshr.in 03 March 2022 IJSSHR, Volume 05 Issue On Syncretic and Polyfunctional Properties of Uzbek and English Participles Dildora Ganieva PhD, Doctoral student of Andijan State University ABSTRACT: This research aims at studying syncretic properties of participles, and exploring their polyfunctional realization. It is a comparative study of participles in Uzbek and English languages, that belong to different language families, the Altaic and the Indo-European correspondingly, and perhaps, therefore, the studied units in Uzbek are contextually oriented, and in English, they are inherently oriented. The research employs a qualitative method using comparative and componential analyses. The samples in the study are taken from written sources. The findings of the research proves that participles, as being non-finite forms of the verb and therefore considered syncretic units, perform various functions depending on the context they occur. This polyfunctional realization is characteristic to the both languages, although, several functions of participles in the one language are different from participles in the other language. KEY WORDS: Syncretism, Polyfunctional, Non-Finite, Deranked, A Participle, A Converb, An Absolute Tense, A Relative Tense, A Present Participle, A Past Participle, A Future Participle. INTRODUCTION In linguistics, syncretism and polyfunctionality associate with the integrity of form+meaning+function that any language unit contains. Syncretism of linguistic units is related to the semantic structure, and it is the realization of several semes by means of the same form. Polyfunctionality is the result of realization of one or another property of a certain syncretic linguistic unit in the process of speech, or a sematic context. A participle, a functional form of the verb, modifies a noun or a noun phrase and syntactically functions as an attribute or a predicative of the sentence as an adjective. It is known that the difference between this non-finite form and the adjective is the participle modifies a noun from the viewpoint of a process or a state as the verb and the adjective modifies from the viewpoint of a property. As it is known, non-finite forms of the verbs are such units of a language, which possess properties of verbs, and of other certain word classes, for instance, infinitives have properties of verbs and nouns, participles have features of verbs and adjectives. It means that these units are syncretic and therefore, they perform more than one function in different contexts. Participles possess a relative tense and an absolute tense of the clause refers to the predicate of this clause. It means that in a sentence with a past predicate we can use past, present and future participles in Uzbek and past and present ones in English. Moreover, these forms can be used in sentences with present or future predicates. LITERATURE REVIEW Participle and its types According to Glossary of Linguistics Terms, a participle is a lexical item, derived from a verb, that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives. Crystal (2008:351) defines a participle in the following way: “A traditional grammatical term referring to a word derived from a verb and used as an adjective”. Haspelmath (1994:152) refers to the earlier work of Crystal and outlines the term as following: “Participles are be st defined as verbal adjectives, i.e. words behave like adjectives with respect to morphology and external syntax, but regularly derived from verbs ”. Shagal, who studies participles typologically as a dissertation, states that participles are morphosyntactically deranked verb forms that can be employed for adnominal modification (Shagal, 2017:1). The Russian encyclopaedic linguistic dictionary (1990:399) gives the definition of a participle: “a non-finite form of the verb denoting a feature of names (of a person, an object) related to an action and used as an attribute”. Giniyatullina et al (2017:1278) state: “Participle is a non-finite form of the verb which expresses characteristics of a subject according to its action.” According to Mengliev (1996:16), functions of a participle are conjugating a verb to a noun (sometimes to another verb) and giving this verb a property of an adjective.