The article is devoted to a contrastive analysis of the syntactic structure and organization of verbal word combinations in English and Tajik. The focus is on the word combination as a non-predicative nominative unit of syntax, consisting of a head (kernel) and an adjunct and reflecting semantic and grammatical relations between its components. Special attention is given to verbal word combinations with object verbs, as well as to the analysis of the means of expressing object and adverbial relations in English and Tajik. Differences in verb combinability, the role of prepositions and postpositions, word order, and analytic means are determined by thetypological features of the languages. On the basis of extensive empirical material, it is shown that identical formal means may express different semantic relations, and divergences in the realization of verb transitivity and objectivity are identified.The study concludes that verbal word combinations in English and Tajik are characterized by significant structural and semantic diversity, and that the leading types of syntactic relations between the head and the adjunct are object and adverbial relations.
word combinations, verbal phrases, comparative analysis, transitive verbs,object verbs, syntactic relations, object relations, adverbial relations, verb combinability
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