Lecture №2. Historical background of typological investigations

The fourth factor is theinfluence of the translation and translation science.Translation is a quite ancient science. When people started to translate from one language into another they unconsciously compared two languages. That is why they consider translation to be the main part of typology. The influence of translation to typology can be classified as followings:

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  translation of fiction stories;
  

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  translation of grammatical forms;
  

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  translations that are done under the influence of mathematical linguistics.