Phonological typology
Who is the founder of the typology of phonological systems?
N.S. Trubetskoy
What does morphological typology study?
It studies how languages form words by combining morphemes and compares their morphological structures.
What is the main focus of syntactic typology?
It compares sentence and word-combination structures across languages.
What does phonological typology mainly study?
It studies phonological differential signs and classifies languages based on their phonological features
What are the two main types of morpological typology's object?
Morphological classification of languages; Study of particular grammatical questions such as parts of speech and morphological markers.
What does syntactic typology define in world languages?
It defines syntactic universals and classifies languages based on their syntactic structures.
Tell us language classification according to phonological typology
The classification of languages into tonic and antonic types.
What are three main types of languages in morphological classification?
Analytic, synthetic(agglutinative and fusional), and polysynthetic languages
Name one type of syntactic connection studied in this typology
Attributive or predicative connection
Which cross-linguistic phonological features are often compared in this typology?
Phoneme inventors, syllable structure, stress, tone, intonation, and prosody.
What characterizes an analytic language?
It has very little inflection and relies on word order and auxiliary words to convey meaning.
Who are some scholars that contributed to syntactic typology?
I.I. Meshchaninov, J.V. Rojdestvenskiy, C.E.Bazell, T.Milevskiy, and V.S. Hrakovskiy.
Name two scholars or achievements in phonological typology besides Trubetskoy?
I.Kramskoy and P.Kovaleva's quantitive criteria; A.Martine's suprasegmental claasification on tone and accent.
What is the difference between agglutinatve and fusional languages?
Agglutinative languages use seperate morphemes for each meaning, while fusional languages combine multiple grammatical meanings in a single morpheme.
What is the aim of comparing syntactic structures across genetically or structurally related languages?
To identify universal patterns and classify languages based on sentence structure and syntactic categories