Historical background of typological investigations

Historical background of typological investigations

Historical background of typological investigations

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  In the Essays of Linguistics by Amirova, Rojdestventskiy, olkhovikov six stages are defined for the history of development of linguistics as a science. As all of them imply systemic comparison, this classification can be to a large extent applied to CL too
  

Theory of naming in Antique philosophy

Theory of naming in Antique philosophy

The main 2 schools

1. Analogists 2.Anomalists

The Antique Grammar traditions of West and East

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  Theory of Grammar emerged at this time. At this period the basic primary grammatical categories parts of speech were distinguished and described: the names such as the noun (proper, common), the adj, the numeral, verb, pronoun. Also some grammatical categories were identified: the category of number, gender, case, mood
  

The Universal Grammar

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  Port-Royal Grammar by Arnold A., Lancelot C, (XVII c.) in Indo-European languages. Port-Royal Grammar can be considered one of the most precious contributions to the development of Comparative Typology. It was developed by 2 French monks in the small abbey Port-Royal in the suburbs of Paris (published in 1660).
  
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  Reveals common features of language structures basing on the comparison of languages with different typological structure.
  

Comparative Linguistics

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  There are 3 stages
  

  1. Comparative- Historical linguistics dealing with the study of genetic similarities and relations of languages

  2. Comparative Typological linguistics dealing with language study and identifying language types irrespectively of their cultural historic origin

  3. Theory of linguistics which forms philosophy of language and serves the basis of General linguistics