typology
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SVO
Fula, Chinese, English
typology
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.
S
subject
typologist
constructs samples -representative of human language diversity -different language families -different geographical regions
typology
deals with ways in which languages differ from each other
typologist
divide languages into types according to basic word order
V
verb
O
object
typology
-limitations on variation -degrees of variation -dividing languages into types -comparing specific phenomena on language
VSO
Arabic, Tongan, Welsh
SOV
Japanese, Tamil, Turkish
