2. Comparative typological studies in Germany and elsewhere.
A German scholar F.Bopp (1791-1867)-one of the founders of the Comparative typology of Indo-European languages investigated Sanskrit in comparison with the Greek. Latin Persian and Germanic languages which resulted in creating a fundamental work "System of Conjugation in Sanskrit compared with the Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic Languages".
He distinguishes two language types:
He distinguishes two language types:
1) languages with affixes (Turkiclanguages) and even Chinese;
2) flective languages (Semit language, Georgian, French languages). His brother August Shelegel (1767-1845) further developed this classification of languages by dividing the languages into three types:
Following Meschaninov's typology his successors have worked oud different theories on the comparative typological studies of languages.
For example prof.Buranov worked out his theory of determination as a leading grammatical tendency in a language, which explains the changes in the grammatical structure of this or that language. It is known that long before that O.Jesperson worked out his theory of notional categories of languages, based on logical criteria. His notional categories are of great importance in comparative typological research, because they imply that some grammatical categories in given language may be expressed by lexical means and not grammatical ones or vise versa.
For example prof.Buranov worked out his theory of determination as a leading grammatical tendency in a language, which explains the changes in the grammatical structure of this or that language. It is known that long before that O.Jesperson worked out his theory of notional categories of languages, based on logical criteria. His notional categories are of great importance in comparative typological research, because they imply that some grammatical categories in given language may be expressed by lexical means and not grammatical ones or vise versa.
