definition of typology

[Paolo Ramat]

't is quite simple, Yuri! 'Linguistic typology' is the study of linguistic types. Basically, an empirical science --not  a theory of language, but the basis for constructing a sensible language theory, much in the sense of L. Hjelmslev (Sproget, 1963).

Best,
P.Rt.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Raffaele Simone 
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  Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 1:37 PM
  Subject: Re: definition of typology



  Vaste programme!, dear colleague. This is so everywhere in linguistics. This depends on the very nature of the discipline (a proto-science, in G.-G- Granger's terms), not on the malignity of individuals. Il faut s'y rendre! Everything is typology, nothing is typology!
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  R Simone


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    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Yuri Tambovtsev 
    To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG 
    Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 7:03 PM
    Subject: definition of typology


    Dear Typology colleagues, reading journals on typology I came to a conclusion that different linguists and edotors understand typology in their own way. It especially concerns editors who may return a manuscript on the pretext that it is not on typology. Therefore, it occurred to me to discuss the term "typology" in order to realise how it is understood in modern linguistics. Looking forward to receiving your definitions to yutamb at mail.ru  Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev
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