Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

Semantic typology
is a branch of Comparative Typology studying thesemantic 
structure of the language and related to the units of content plan. The ultimate goal 
of Semantic typology is identifying semantic universals which are directly related to 
the deep structure of the language. Other issues considered in the frames of Semantic 
typology are: identifying aims and problems of Semantic typology, defining 
different semantic fields for comparative analysis, grouping words on the basis of 
semantic signs, defining semantic fields in different languages, creating criteria to 
define semantic categories, elaboration of the principles of compiling semantic 
comparative dictionaries and many others. 
Some scholars debate that there is no need to distinguish Semantic typology into 
a separate branch as similar issues are studied under the scope of Lexical typology. 
The major difference between the two seems to lie in the following: Semantic 
typology operates with the units of theemic level and is indifferent to theethic 
identity of compared languages. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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1.4. Types of language comparison 
The comparison may be of two types: 
substantial
and 
non-substantial
. 
Under 
substantial comparison,
linguists mean comparison of some concrete 
things or objects, e.g. sounds, digits, numbers, etc. Under