2. The subject of comparative typology and its aims.
3. The difference between typological and historic and comparative linguistics.
The word typology consists of two Greek morphemes:
a) typos means type and b) logos means science or word. Typology is a branch of science which is typical to all sciences without any exception. In this respect their typological method is not limited with the sphere of one science.
It has a universal rise. So typology may be divided into:
1. Non-linguistic and
2. Linguistic typology
Non-linguistic typology is the subject matter of the sciences except linguistics.
Linguistic typology is a new branch of general linguistic which studies the systems of languages comparatively, also finds common laws of languages and establishes differences and similarities between them.
Typological classification of languages. In linguistics we may come across many terms as to the terminological nature of linguistic typology. The are:
• 1. Comparative (or contrastive) linguistics, 2. Comparative methods,
• 3. Comparative – historical method,
• 4. Comparative typology,
• 5. Comparative grammar,
• 6. Connotation grammar,
• 7. Descriptive – comparative linguistics
According to the notion of comparison of linguistics phenomenon and the aim directed on we may classify linguistic typology into the following parts
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a) genetic of genealogical typology,
b) structural typology,
c) areal typology
d) comparative typology.
Genealogical typology is a branch of linguistic typology which studies the similarities and the relationship between the related languages. It is applicated to the systems of genetically related languages. Genealogical typology developed from the comparative – historical linguistics dominated during the 19th century in Europe.
• Comparatives gave two kinds of classification of languages – genealogical and