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Linguistic typology

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typologies of language

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Language Acquisition : Linguistic Typology / Understand Japanese Grammar EASIER [#22]

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School in Linguistic Typology I

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Towards language universals through lexical semantics: introduction to lexical and semantic typology

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Research Centre For Linguistic Typology

Linguistic typology is a field of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the world's languages. Its subdisciplines include, but are not limited to: qualitative typology, which deals with the issue of comparing languages and within-language variance; quantitative typology, which deals with the distribution of structural patterns in the world’s languages; theoretical typology, which explains these distributions; syntactic typology, which deals with word order, word form, and word choice; and lexical typology, which deals with language vocabulary.
    • Qualitative typology