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English translation: language typology


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German term or phrase:sprachtypologisch
English translation:language typology
Entered by: Dr Lofthouse
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08:37 May 28, 2009
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Social Sciences - Linguistics
German term or phrase: sprachtypologisch
Masters degree course in comparative linguistics..

Ziel des Studiengangs ist es, Kompetenzen, Fertigkeiten und Kenntnisse im Umgang mit exemplarischen Gegenständen aus dem Fach Historische und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft auf der Grundlage linguistischer, speziell sprachhistorischer und sprachtypologischer, und kulturbezogener Kenntnisse zu vertiefen,

..is this a specific area of linguistics (which is not my field)
Dr Lofthouse
United Kingdom
language typology
Explanation:
http://www.linguistik.uni-mainz.de/fachgebiete/language-typo...
http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/linguistics/9780198238...

What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? Language typology, which has developed in response to these fundamental questions, is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of possible human languages and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. Language typology is a major concern of all contemporary schools of linguistics, yet a coherent image of the field is difficult to form because of the diversity of theoretical orientations and practical methodologies.
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3language typology
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Sprachtypologie; linguistic typologycasper

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sprachtypologischer
language typology


Explanation:
http://www.linguistik.uni-mainz.de/fachgebiete/language-typo...
http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/linguistics/9780198238...

What do all languages have in common, and what gives each language its individuality? Language typology, which has developed in response to these fundamental questions, is concerned with the construction of theoretical frameworks capable of delimiting the range of possible human languages and of capturing constraints on cross-linguistic variation. Language typology is a major concern of all contemporary schools of linguistics, yet a coherent image of the field is difficult to form because of the diversity of theoretical orientations and practical methodologies.

Susanne Schiewe
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Reference: Sprachtypologie; linguistic typology

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Die Sprachtypologie ist ein System (eigentlich mehrere solcher Systeme) zur Klassifizierung von Sprachen anhand grammatischer Merkmale. Die typologische Klassifikation unterscheidet sich von der genetischen Klassifikation, welche Sprachen nach primären etymologischen Ursprüngen, das heißt nach ihren Ursprachen, in Sprachfamilien einordnet, und von der geographischen Klassifikation, welche Sprachen aufgrund von durch anhaltenden Sprachkontakt entstandenen Ähnlichkeiten in Sprachbünden gruppiert.
Eine typologische Klasse wird Sprachtyp genannt.
Es bestehen verschiedene Ansätze zur Sprachtypologie.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachtypologie



Linguistic typology is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural features. Its aim is to describe and explain the structural diversity of the world's languages. It includes three subdisciplines: 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; and theoretical typology, which explains these distributions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_typology

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May 28, 2009 - Changes made by Steffen Walter:
Term askedsprachtypologischer => sprachtypologisch


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