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Exercise 1. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or False.

1. 
   Typology represents an approach or theoretical framework to the study of language that contrasts with prior approaches.
   

True/ False

2. 
   The development of typology is very fast. True/ False
   
3. 
   According to scientists: Material similarity means similarities of words that are similar in meaning and morphemes in compared languages.
   

True/ False

4. 
   Comparative typology in its turn consists of the following types: typological theory; typological classification; etalon language; language universals. True/ False
   
5. 
   Uspenskiy said: ―Typology deals with a limited number of languages. True/ False
   
6. 
   Comparative study of the languages is a scientific research, devoted to thecomparative study of two languages like Uzbek and Russian or English and French.
   

True/ False
Exercise 2. Complete the table according to their classification of linguistic typology.



Exercise 3. Read the statements below and match them with the appropriate answers.

Typology does not deal with a limited number of languages. If it does, then it should be called ―characterology‖ or ―comparative description.

Material similarity means similarities of words that are similar in meaning and morphemes in compared languages.

In the last seven or eight years, the ―Port Royal Grammar‖ has been discussed more often in the English speaking world than at any other time since its publication more than three hundred years ago.

Typology consists of structural, comparative and genetic typology. The task of structural typology consists of language universals, typological classification of the languages, typological theory and work out methods to create ethalon language.

It would be wrong to identify comparative researches of two languages with typology.

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