Семінар №1 - Contrastive typology, its aims and methods of investigation

1. The subject of contrastive typology and its theoretical and practical aims

2. The principal terms and notions of contrastive typology (isomorphic/ allomorphic features and phenomena, absolute/near universals, typological constants, idiomatic, dominant and recessive features, etc.)

3. Kinds of typological investigations/various typologies (special typology, level typologies, areal typology, etc.)

4. The typological method vs. the historical and comparative method, the contrastive linguistic method of investigation

5. The principal linguistic methods employed in contrastive typology (the comparative, the inductive/deductive methods, the ICs, the transformational and substitutional methods, Greenberg's indexes method)

6. Give a short prehistory of European contrastive typology of the 17th — 18th centuries. The Ukrainian lexemes in Sanskrit

7. The contribution to contrastive typological investigations of the brothers F. and A. Schlegel and of W. Humboldt, H. Steinthal and others in the 19th century linguistics

8. Prague school linguists (V. Mathesius, N. Trubetskoy, V. Skalička, R. Jakobson, and others) and their contribution to typological investigations

9. Other 20th century linguists (E. Sapir, J. Greenberg, O. Isachenko, N. Ya. Marr, M. Kalynovych, Y. Zhluktenko) and their contribution to typological and Contrastive linguistics

10. The dominant typical features of a language vs. the structural type of this language

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