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2. MAIN PERIODS AND FACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT AND
THE MAIN PARAMETERS MODIFYING SUBJECT MATTER
AND BRANCHES OF THE LINGUISTIC TYPOLOGY
Activity 1. Fill the table with “YES” and “NO”
1.
The linguistic typology investigates only private cases of
similarity and distinctions in the structures of languages.
2.
The language is the system of signs, which has two aspects: the
plan of expression and the plan of meaning.
3.
The linguistic typology
defines those features, which separate
languages and those ones, which unite them.
4.
General typology studies the problems of speech, which studies
the theory of classification and systematization
on the basis of
comparative method.
5.
It is a dependent science, and does not have its own structure and
methods of research. General typology is divided into linguistic
typology and non-linguistic typology.
6.
There are two approaches to language description: 1) Internal 2)
External.
7.
The subject matter of linguistic typology is not a disputable
problem at all.
Yes
No
Ex: The linguistic typology
investigates only private cases of
similarity and distinctions in the
structures of languages.
Activity 2. Read and fill the gaps with the given words below.
The …… is named typological imitation. It means using certain
methods and models of one language while studying the system of
another language. It is the most ancient type of language description.
For example, first Latin grammars were written on the basis of Greek
grammars. Later on many grammar books of different languages were
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written under the influence of this method. For example, …… (1755)
who wrote
the English grammar, distinguished …….. in English under
the influence of the Latin grammar. They are ………... .
The …… is the appearance of scientific works in comparison,
which played a great role in further language descriptions. Substantial
comparison of language systems began in early antiquity. The most
systematic comparison of different languages began by ……… in
Port-Royal Grammar where the authors studied ……. languages under
comparison. Here it should be kept in
mind the role of scientific-
historical method, which influenced the development of linguistic
comparison. It is connected with the appearance of scientific
comparison, which had its own peculiar
methods of comparison of
language systems.
first factor, 6 cases, Samuel Johnson, Nominative, Genitive,
Dative, Accusative, Vocative and Ablative, second factor, Antuan
Arnauld and Klod Lanselot, French, Latin, and Greek,
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