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linguistic typology

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linguistic typology
the classification of languages by structural similarity, e.g., similarity of syntactic or phonemic features, as opposed to classification on the basis of shared linguistic ancestry.
See also: Linguistics
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The chapters cover all of the types of languages Crowley worked on--Australian, Oceanic, pidgins and creoles, and varieties of English--and are organized into three sections reflecting three areas of linguistics of great interest to Crowley: language description and linguistic typology, language history and historical linguistics, and language development and linguistic applications.
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Language Universals and Linguistic Typology (2ndedition 1989).
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Irrespective of the feasibility and the effect of such an endeavour, the argument that general linguistics and linguistic typology are unable to sufficiently take into account Uralic data due to deviating transcription is hardly convincing.
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