«инглиз тили лексикологияси» кафедраси

Exercise #1. 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 creating amore informative classification of the languages like periodical systems of Mendeleyev.