Lecture 3: Classification of Comparative Typology According to Dr. Buranov

Branches of structural typology

	Typological theory
	a) It defines common linguistic notions used in Comparative Typology; b) The typological theory is used to define language isomorphism (common features) and allomorphism (differentiating signs).

Questions for discussion

1. What are branches of Comparative Typology as to the object of investigation?

2. What is genetic typology concerned with?

3. What does areal typology deal with?

4. What is the task of comparative typology?

5. What is the main issue of structural typology?

6. How are structural typology and comparative typology connected to each other in terms of their tasks?

7. What are branches of Comparative Typology as to the language hierarchy?

8. What is phonetic and phonological typology?

9. What is morphological typology?

10. What is syntactic typology?

11. What is lexical typology?

12. What are branches of Comparative Typology as to two plans of language?

13. What is formal typology?

14. What is semantic typology?

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