Contrastive Analysis Of Arabic And Uzbek Syntactic Structures: Implications For Translation Pedagogy

Abstract

This study presents a systematic contrastive analysis of syntactic structures in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and Modern Literary Uzbek Received: 15-05-2026 (MLU), with particular attention to the implications of structural divergences for translation pedagogy. Arabic and Uzbek belong to fundamentally different Accepted: 28-05-2026 language families–Semitic and Turkic respectively–and exhibit typologically Published:09-06-2026 contrasting syntactic patterns in word order, agreement systems, relative clause formation, and nominal modification. Despite the historical and cultural connections between Arabic and Uzbek through the Islamic scholarly tradition, systematic contrastive linguistic analysis of the two languages remains underdeveloped. Employing a parallel corpus of 600 sentence pairs drawn from Copyright: © 2026 by the authors. literary, journalistic, and academic texts, this study identifies and classifies Submitted for open access publication the principal syntactic divergences between Arabic and Uzbek, analyzes the under the terms and conditions of the translation challenges arising from each divergence, and proposes pedagogical Creative Commons Attribution (CC strategies for addressing these challenges in Arabic-Uzbek translation training BY) license programs. Results reveal that word order asymmetry (VSO/SVO in Arabic vs. SOV (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ in Uzbek) constitutes the most pervasive source of translation difficulty, followed by/4.0/) by the Arabic system of grammatical agreement (gender, number, case), relative clause structures, and the idafa (construct state) construction. The study identifies five categories of syntactic transfer errors in student translations and proposes a contrastive-based pedagogical framework for systematic error prevention. The findings carry direct implications for the methodology of Arabic translation instruction in Central Asian universities.