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SEMINAR 4. BRANCHES OF COMPARATIVE TYPOLOGY 
Exercise 1. Complete the table according to their classification of linguistic 
typology. 
According to 2 plans of 
language 
According to subject of 
comparison 
According to levels of 
language hierarchy 

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Exercise 2. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or 
False. 
1.
_____ Non-linguistic typology is the subject matter of the sciences except 
linguistics. 
2.
_____ Linguistic Typology, Comparative Typology, Contrastive Typology 
are totally different sciences. 
3.
_____ Morphological classification deals with the family relationship of 
languages, which descend from one common ancestor.
4.
_____ According to two plans of language, there four main types of 
Linguistic Typology. 
5.
____ According to the levels of language hierarchy, there are five types of 
typology.
6.
_____ Panchronic approach deals with dead and living language 
comparison.
7.
_____ Substantial comparison is used in linguistics.
8.
_____ Internal approach deals with the comparison of the systems of any 
concrete language, it is aninner comparison.
9.
_____ External approach deals with only related languages.
10.
_____ Non-substantial comparison is used in all spheres of science except 
Linguistics.
 
Exercise 3. Read and fill the gaps with the given words below. 
Languages, typological, nation, were, romantics, formed 
 
 
The problem of the type language was firstly discussed by ……..…, the 
representators of romanticism which was……….. at the end of XVIII and in the 
beginning of XIX century. Romantics considered that ―the spirit of the ……….‖ 
may be displayed in myth in art, literature and in the language. V.Gumbold began 
to examine the types of the …..…….. as a display of ―the spirit of the nation‖. The 
division of the languages to flaxsive and affix by the German linguist Fridrih 
Shlegel was the first attempt to create atypological classification of the language. 
From the history of linguistic studies, such ……….…. classification of languages 
offered by August William, V.Gumbold, A.Shleyher, G.Steyntal, F.Misteli and 
other linguists were …………. Now topologists are trying to find the ways of 

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creating amore informative classification of the languages like periodical systems 
of Mendeleyev.