Uzbekistan state world languages university

Meshchaninov, J.V.Rojdestvenskiy

C.E.Bazell, T.Milevsky, V.S.Hrakovskiy,
contributed a lot to theelaboration of different aspects
of Syntactic typology.


3. Branches of Comparative Typology as to two plans of language





Formal typology deals with the units of expression plan of the language which belongs to various levels of language hierarchy.
The ultimate goal of Formal typology is identifying formal universal. The major j tasks of Formal typology embrace but are not limited to the following:

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  reveal external or formal features of the language;
  
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  establish common principles of thescript, e.g. graphic systems, alphabets,
  

thesystem of transcription signs, punctuation; ,

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  establish formal structures of the syllable, composite words, word
  

combinations; |

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  establish theformal structure of the sentence etc.
  

Semantic typology is a branch of Comparative Typology studying thesemantic structure of the language and related to the units of content plan. The ultimate goal of Semantic typology is identifying semantic universals which are directly related to the deep structure of the language. Other issues considered in the frames of Semantic j typology are: identifying aims and problems of Semantic typology, defining j


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illlli'inil semantic fields for comparative analysis, grouping words on the basis of «Himnlle signs, defining semantic fields in different languages, creating criteria to ill line semantic categories, elaboration of the principles of compiling semantic

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  ii|ii|iiinitive dictionaries and many others.
  

Some scholars debate that there is no need to distinguish Semantic typology into 'I piii nle branch as similar issues are studied under the scope of Lexical typology. Hu' major difference between the two seems to lie in the following: Semantic lipulnp.y operates with the units of theemic level and is indifferent to theethic lilt Hilly of compared languages.

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