Object of investigation,to the levels of language hierarchy and to two plans of the language

Semantic typology
 studies two types of meanings: l)lexical meaning, which 
corresponds to the real meaning of the word; 2) grammatical meaning, which is 
more abstract and typical to the whole classes of words. 
Semantic typology according to the lexical meaning classifies words into different 
semantic groups of classes, such as a) human names; b) names of animals; c) 
names of planets; d) names of instruments; e) place names and so on. Semantic 
typology studies the etymology of human names. Names of human beings may be 
borrowed from the names of flowers, animals, instruments, planets, trees and 
different other phenomena. Semantic typology studies: a) grammatical categories 

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concerning every part of speech : the category of modality, location, voice, tense, 
etc; b) the relation between logical and grammatical categories; c) typological 
meanings, which characterize the semantic sub-system of all languages. 
 
Self-control questions: 
1.
 
What are the main types of typology? 
2.
 
Characteristic features of genetic typology: genetic, diachronic and genetic 
synchronic typologies. 
3.
 
What languages does areal typology study? Speak about the main specific 
features. 
4.
 
What are the main criteria, which characterize comparative typology? 
5.
 
Speak about structural typology as one of the basic branches of linguistic 
typology. 
6.
 
What does the term "linguistic universals" mean? Speak about its historic 
development. 
7.
 
How do you understand the term "etalon language"? 
8.
 
What kinds of classification of languages do you know? 
9.
 
Characteristic features of typological classification. 
10.
 
Speak about each type of languages. 
11.
 
How do you understand the term "typological theory"? 
12.
 
How do you understand levels of language hierarchy? 
13.
 
What are the main specific features of each type of typology? 
14.
 
What does the morphological typology study? 
15.
 
Characterize syntactic typology? 
16.
 
What does lexical typology study? 
17.
 
What can you say about two plans of language ? How do the linguists 
differentiate them? 
18.
 
Speak about a) formal approach to comparison , b) formal typology and its 
features. 
19.
 
What are the main distinctions between lexical and semantic typologies?