This article examines phasality, the representation of the initial, medial, and final phases of a situation, in English (Germanic, analytic-inflectional) and Uzbek (Turkic, agglutinative). Using the functional-semantic field approach and a contrastive methodology, it identifies the lexical, lexico-grammatical, and morphological means each language uses to express inception, continuation, cessation, and completion. English relies mainly on phasal verbs with non-finite complements (begin, continue, stop, finish) and on phrasal-verb constructions. Uzbek relies on a synthetic-analytic system of converb-plus-auxiliary constructions (-a boshlamoq, -ib qolmoq, -ib chiqmoq, -aver-) alongside lexical phasal verbs governing verbal nouns. The study concludes that the two languages share a universal semantic core but differ in how grammaticalized the category is. Uzbek encodes phasal meaning more systematically in verb morphology, while English distributes it across complementation patterns and aspectual periphrasis.

phasality, phasal verbs, aspectuality, contrastive linguistics, English, Uzbek, auxiliary verbs, converbs, functional-semantic field.

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