Linguistic typology — is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity of the world s languages. It includes three subdisciplines: qualitative… … Wikipedia
Typology — is the study of types. More specifically, it may refer to:*Typology (anthropology), division of culture by races *Typology (archaeology), classification of things according to their characteristics *Typology (theology), in Christian theology the… … Wikipedia
Linguistic universal — A linguistic universal is a statement that is true for all natural languages. For example, All languages have nouns and verbs, or All spoken languages have consonants and vowels. Research in this area of linguistics is closely tied to linguistic… … Wikipedia
Linguistic modality — For modality signaled with grammatical affixes, see Grammatical mood. Grammatical categories Animacy Aspect Case Clusivity Definiteness … Wikipedia
Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time — [http://books.google.com/books?id=hrT xNaDkgQC printsec=frontcover Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time] (University of Chicago Press, 1992) is linguist Johanna Nichols s best known work, pioneering the use of linguistic typology as a tool for… … Wikipedia
Linguistic anthropology — is that branch of anthropology that brings linguistic methods to bear on anthropological problems, linking the analysis of semiotic and particularly linguistic forms and processes to the interpretation of sociocultural processes.Historical… … Wikipedia
Morphological typology — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic … Wikipedia
Milewski's typology — Milewski’s typology is a language classification system proposed in the 1960s by the Polish linguist Tadeusz Milewski. In this classification active and tripartite languages were omitted because they were little known at that time. Milewski… … Wikipedia
Morphosyntactic alignment — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic … Wikipedia
Word order — Linguistic typology Morphological Isolating Synthetic Polysynthetic Fusional Agglutinative Morphosyntactic Alig … Wikipedia
