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Exercise 1. Read the statement below and find some mistakes among 
them. 
Typology is a branch of science which is typical to all sciences without 
any exception. In this respect, their typological method is not limited to the 
sphere of one science. Typology may be divided into
Non-linguistic typology, 
Linguistic typology, Paralinguistic typology. 
Non-linguistic typology is the subject matter of the sciences except linguistics. 
It can be political typology, medical or economic typology as well. Linguistic 
typology is a new branch of general linguistics which studies the systems of 
languages comparatively, also finds common laws of languages and 
establishes differences and similarities between them. And due to David 
Crystal’s book “Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics”, Non- linguistic 
Typology is explained in this way: “A branch of linguistics which studies the 

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structural similarities between languages, regardless of their history, as part of 
an attempt to establish a satisfactory classification, or typology, of languages. 
The typological comparison is thus distinguished from the historical 
comparison of languages and its groupings can coincide with those set up by 
the historical method”. Nowadays a lot of terms are used for defining this very 
type of science, such as 
Linguistic Typology
, 
Comparative Typology
, 
Contrastive Typology
. But with the help of analyzing historical background, 
we will be able to realize the main notion of this branch of Linguistics. 
Typology is understood as a science of a whole comparison that has a large 
number of factors of its development. However, if it is described as a 
structural typology, then numbers of factors of its appearance will diminish. 
As Maslow said: “Typology does not deal with a limited number of 
languages. If it does, then it should be called “characterlogy” or “comparative 
description”. Since the number of languages typology deals with can’t be 
counted, languages are referred as an unlimited number of languages. The 
development of typology was very slow. It has several factors that influence 
to its development which are but not limited to typological imitation, “Port 
Royal Grammar”, historical comparative linguistics, theprocess of studying of 
languages without awriting system, theinfluence of writing, phonetics and 
practical and theoretical study of languages.