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Contact
. The elements are combined with one another by sheer contact,
without the help of any grammatical forms.(e.g. бежать быстро)
The adjunct can be in
pre-position
or
in post-position
to the head-word.E.g.
a health certificate; справка о здоровье.
The typology of the sentence has been investigated nearly as closely as the
typology of the morphological structure. The first scholar who made a considerable
contribution to this part of typology was I. Mestchaninov. He created a new
typological classification of languages based on their syntactical structure, mainly
on the typology of sentences.He classifies the languages into
nominative, ergative
and
passive
is considered too general. For example, according to his classification,
isolating, agglutinational and inflexional languages all belong to the nominative
type.
Such characteristics were supplied by Vladimir Skalicka. According to him,
fixed word order is characteristic of agglutinational and isolating types. The former
has the Subject - Object - Predicate word order, and the latter has the Subject -
Predicate - Object word order. In inflexional languages, word order is not fixed,
but the most common variant is Subject - Predicate - Object.
Skalicka’s typology is more detailed but it has also been criticized. Linguists
have pointed out that some of theinflexional languages have fixed word order (e.g.
Persian, Armenian) and it is similar to the word order of agglutinational languages.
Another typology of the sentence was set up by Joseph Greenberg. He based
it on three criteria:
The existence of prepositions or postpositions
The word order of declarative sentences
The position of attributes expressed by adjectives
Greenberg classified about 30 languages. He found only three variants of
word order: S+P+O, S+O+P, P+S+O.
According to Greenberg’s classification, the English and Russian languages
belong to the group having prepositions, adjectives in preposition to nouns and
SPO word order. But Uzbek language belongs to aninflectional group of languages
and SOV word order. At the same time, the facts of the languages show that these
languages are not identical in their syntactical structure. There is evidently need for
more subtle syntactical classifications.
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