LINGUISTICS 407 Lecture #5 TYPOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION Typology is concerned with • establishing what types of systems are possible in natural language, • investigation of structural similarities among languages that are not genetically related. Languages may be classified on the basis of their type. In 1818 A. Schlegel proposed a typological classification of languages -still very influential! ...

Electronic databases are increasingly popular tools in typological research. Despite the advantages of such tools, there are problems connected both with their construction and with their standardization. For instance, there is generally a considerable gap between the information stored in typological databases and primary data: primary morphosyntactic data are much more difficult to handle com...

Theory, approach and the tools of transect model have recently turned into one of the fundamental maxims of urban design and planning in the urbanization systems in Europe, the United States and more recently the middle-east, its fundamentals are based on reaching the sustainable development patterns in urban areas. A general accordance regarding the operationalizability of this theory and appr...

This paper applies finite state technologies to verify the typological validity of Turbid Spreading, a theory of vowel harmony in Optimality Theory (OT) (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004). Previous analyses of vowel harmony in OT have been prone to typological inconsistencies, predicting grammars that do not occur in natural language (Wilson, 2003). However, attempts to eliminate typological patho...

Typological discourse analysis is the study of those factors that affect the choice of constructions in a language, taking the surrounding discourse context into account. Typically, texts from a large number of languages are analyzed quantitatively in order to discover statistical regularities between functional parameters affecting the choice of alternations. Examples of alternations are activ...