Lecture №2. Historical background of typological investigations

The fifth factor is theinfluence of lexicography. The appearance of dictionaries was bound with applied need to transform and compare languages and national cultures.
While compiling bi- or multilingual dictionaries a lexicographer conducts acomparison of all levels of language hierarchy: phonetic units, grammatical structure, lexical units, word formation, punctuation, etc.
The sixth factor ispractical and theoretical study and teaching of foreign languages.Studying and teaching foreign language required comparison of languages that are taught and studied. Since Uzbekistan is considered as a multilingual country, a lot of attention is being focused on thedevelopment of typology because without knowing foreign languages it is impossible to establish political, economic and cultural ties with countries where foreign languages are spoken. Russian is considered to be La lingua franca in Central Asia. In Uzbekistan, bilingualism is based on knowing Uzbek and Russian languages. Besides, it is compulsory that at schools one of the foreign languages should be taught which has derived from the need to establish ties with all the countries of the world. Researches done in Uzbekistan on typology include comparative phonetics, comparative
grammar,and comparative lexicology and so on. For thirty years, there have been numerous numbers of researches, books, monographs, dissertations, and articles have been published.
To sum up, all counted causes can be concluded in this way:

	Comparative	Process of
	- historical	studying
	method	unstudied
		languages	Developmen
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Typological