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1.4. Types of language comparison
The comparison may be of two types:
substantialand
non-substantial.
Under
substantial comparison, linguists mean comparison of some concrete
things or objects, e.g. sounds, digits, numbers, etc. Under
non-substantial
comparison, linguists mean comparison of systems and their elements.
At the early stages of development of
typology as a science, the
major role is
longed to thesubstantial comparison, which is considered primary. Yuri
Rojdenstvenskiy' wrote "...in General Linguistics the relations between language
systems based on substantial features. The languages were considered cognate
because the linguists found principal similarity in their substance: sound and
content".Non-substantial comparison played a significant role in shaping
Comparative Typology as an independent science.
There are two approaches to language description:
internaland
external.
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