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Still, there is no comprehensive list of topics related to
the subject matter of Syntactic typology.
Some of them are: definition of the subject-
matter and volume of Syntactic typology,
elaborationof
basic criteria and a meta
language, border lines between syntactic
typology and other branches of Comparative
Typology, defining syntactic universals, study
of syntax of world languages (genetically or
structurally related languages),
definition of
types of syntactic connection (attributive, predicative,
etc.), definition of sentence types in languages, basic
syntactic
categories, classification of types of
languages on the basis of their syntactic structure and
many others.
I.I.Meshchaninov,
J.V.Rojdestvenskiy
C.E.Bazell, T.Milevsky, V.S.Hrakovskiy,
contributed a lot to theelaboration of
different aspects of Syntactic typology.
3.
Branches of Comparative Typology as to two plans of language
Formal typology
deals with the units of expression plan of the language which
belongs to various levels of language hierarchy.
The ultimate goal of Formal typology is identifying formal universals. The major
tasks of Formal typology embrace but are not limited to the following:
reveal external or formal features of the language;
establish common principles of thescript, e.g.
graphic systems, alphabets,
thesystem of transcription signs, punctuation;
establish formal structures of the syllable,
composite words, word
combinations;
establish theformal structure of the sentence etc.
Formal Typology
Semantic Typology
