History of typological investigations 19-20th century

1. 19th

1.1. Frederic Schlegel: affixal and inflexional languages

1.1.1. 1772-1829

1.2. August Schlegel: added another type – without gram structure (Chinese)

1.2.1. 1767-1845

1.3. W. von Humbloldt: 4 types of languages (isolating, agglutinative, flexional, incorporating). Ethnic psychology.

1.3.1. 1761-1835

1.4. August Schleicher: biological approach.

1.4.1. 1821-1868

1.5. Franz Bopp: monosyllabic languages, lang with root+root or root+affix, disyllabic root words structure.

1.5.1. 1791-1867

1.6. Heimann Steintal: syntactic connections

1.6.1. 1823-1899

1.7. Franz Mistely: criterion for classification- position of the word in the sentence.

1.8. F-N Fink: correlation btw unbreakable and breakable word structure.

1.8.1. 1867-1910

2. 20 th

2.1. Edward Sapire. Language as a system.

2.1.1. 1884-1939

2.2. Joseph Greenberg: quantitative typology

2.2.1. 1915-2001

2.3. Prague school linguists: V. Skalička, V. Mathesius, I. Levy, N. S.

2.4. Soviet times typological investigations were initiated by N. Ya. Marr who investigated the Caucasian area languages and by I.I. Meshchaninov, whose subject of investigation was predicative, objective, and attributive relations in different Caucasian and Paleoasiatic languages.

2.5. Prominent before World War II and immediately after it was the Ukrainian typologist M. Ya. Kalynovych, whose object of contrasting was the word in different European and South Asian languages. The domain of Contrastive investigations of his disciple Yu. O. Zhluktenka, comprised the English and Ukrainian languages and their interrelations in the North American countries.

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