Lecture No 1-2 Topic: Comparative Linguistics: subject matter, types, tasks, approaches

 
 
 
 
Professor U.K.Yusupov’s [2007] classification 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Comparativ
e–historical 
Linguistics 
Typology 
Contrastive 
Linguistics 
Contrastive 
Typology 
Comparative 
Linguistics 
Acc
ordi
ng 
to 
two 
plan
s of 
lang
uag
e 
Acc
ordi
ng 
to 
the 
subj
ect 
of 
com
pari
son 
Acco
rding 
to 
the 
level
s of 
lang
uage 
hiera
rchy 
Comparative 
Linguistics 

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Nowadays the following urgent problems and directions of Comparative Linguistics were 
outlined: 
 the problems of comparative investigations of all aspects of the language including 
phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon and phraseology of related and non-
related languages from linguistic and linguadidactic viewpoints;
 the problem of categorization in linguistics;
 investigations in the sphere of Comparative Stylistics;
 investigations in the sphere of Comparative Lexicology;
 Language and intercultural communication;
 revealing national-cultural features of related and non-related languages;
 correlation and integration of semantics, word-building, syntax, stylistics and functional 
semantics on the base of text linguistics in typological aspect (or in comparison).
Questions for discussion 
1. What is the division of general typology? Illustrate the differences between them with your 
own examples.
2. What is the subject matter of Comparative Linguistics, its types, tasks and approaches, 
modern trends of General Linguistics and how they are used in Comparative Linguistics. 
3. Different approaches to comparison, types of comparison; think about universal features 
of Comparative method. 
4. What can you say about main problems and directions of Comparative Linguistics?
5. What terminology is used in Comparative Linguistics? 
6. Remember different viewpoints to the classification of Comparative Linguistics
Bibliography 
 
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Высшая школа, 1983. 
2. Рождественский Ю.В. Типология слова. – М.,1969.. 
3. Юсупов У.К. Теоретические основы сопоставительной лингвистики. - Т.: Фан, 2007
4. William Croft. Typology and Universals. - Cambridge UNI Press, 2003.