Seminar 2
Comparative typology as a branch of General Linguistics
►Classroom activities
Exercise #1. Round table
discussi
on. Work in six mini groups and discuss
these problems. In 10 minutes present your topic, after all, they make
anoverall conclusion.
Exercise #2. Work in pairs. Discuss your opinions about types of language
comparison. Make your own diagram to the following table. Present it to
another team and complete it with new ideas.
Types of approaches to language description
Linguistic and non-Linguistic typology as different phenomena
Two main types of classification of world languages
Comparative Typology according to two plans of language
Comparative Typology according to the subject of comparison
Comparative Typology according to the levels of language hierarchy
Exercise #3a. Draw a picture, which comes to your mind about genetic
typology for the following table.
3b. Present your picture to the group. Explain why do you think so?
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Home activities
Exercise #1. Complete the following definitions with the types of typology
from the box:
Comparative typology Genetic typology Areal typology Structural typology
1. _______________ 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. _______________ is one of the branches of General Linguistic typology. It
deals with comparison of languages irrespectively of their genetic or structural
identity.
3. _________________ is a
branch of linguistic typology, which studies the
similarities, and differences of originally related languages.
4. _________________ is the major branch of Linguistic
typology and aims to
identify structural language types.
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