Seminar 1 Comparative typology as a branch of General Linguistics

False Linguistic Typology, Comparative Typology, Contrastive Typology are totally different sciences.

False Morphological classification deals with the family relationship of languages, which descend from one common ancestor.

True According to two plans of language, there four main types of Linguistic Typology.

True According to the levels of language hierarchy, there are five types of typology.

True Panchronic approach deals with dead and living language comparison.

True Substantial comparison is used in linguistics.

7. 
   True Internal approach deals with the comparison of the systems of any concrete language, it is aninner comparison.
   
8. 
   False External approach deals with only related languages.
   
9. 
   True Non-substantial comparison is used in all spheres of science except Linguistics.
   

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Exercise #1. Read the statements below and choose whether they are True or False.

1. 
   Typology represents an approach or theoretical framework to the study of language that contrasts with prior approaches. True
   

The development of typology is very fast. False
According to scientists: Material similarity means similarities of words that are similar in meaning and morphemes in compared languages. True

2. 
   Comparative typology in its turn consists of the following types: typological theory; typological classification; etalon language; language universals.False
   
3. 
   Uspenskiy said: “Typology deals with a limited number of languages. False
   
4. 
   Comparative study of the languages is a scientific research, devoted to thecomparative study of two languages like Uzbek and Russian or English and French.