Bank of terms

18. Linguistics typology
Linguistic typology (or language typology) is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages.
19. Metalinguistics		a branch of linguistics that deals with the relation between language and other cultural factors in a society
20. Crosslinguistics		of or relating to languages of different families and types especially : relating to the comparison of different languages
21. Tertium comparations		(Latin for "the third [part] of the comparison") is the quality that two things which are being compared have in common. It is the point of comparison which prompted the author of the comparison in question to liken someone or something to someone or something else in the first place.
22. Paradigm	a typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model. "society's paradigm of the ‘ideal woman’"	a set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles. "English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’"