Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

It would be wrong to identify comparative researches of two languages with typology.Guhman

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Exercise #1. Read and fill the gaps with the given words below.
The problem of the type language was firstly discussed by romantics, the representators of romanticism which were at the end of XVIII and in the beginning of XIX century. Romantics considered that “the spirit of the nationmay be displayed in myth in art, literature and in the language. V.Gumbold began to examine the types of the Languagesas 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 typologicalclassification of languages offered by August William, V.Gumbold, A.Shleyher, G.Steyntal, F.Misteli and other linguists were formed. Now topologists are trying to find the ways of creating amore informative classification of the languages like periodical systems of Mendeleyev.
Seminar#2
Comparative typology as a branch of General Linguistics

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Exercise #1. Complete the following definitions with the types of typology from the box:

Comparative typology Genetic typology Areal typology Structural typology

1. Areal typology is a branch of linguistics that studies (using the methods of linguistic geography) distribution of linguistic phenomena in the spatial extent and interlingual (interdialectic) interaction.

2. Comparative typology is one of the branches of General Linguistic typology. It deals with thecomparison of languages irrespectively of their genetic or structural identity.
3. Genetic typology is a branch of linguistic typology, which studies the simi­larities, and differences of originally related languages.
4. Structural typology is the major branch of Linguistic typology and aims to identify structural language types.