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Activity 4. Make a mini presentation on the theme “Modern 
directions of comparative typological investigations”. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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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,