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

 Comparative typology
is an independent branch of Comparative Typology. It 
deals with thecomparison of languages irrespectively of their genetic or structural 
identity. Comparative typology operates with a limited number of languages and the 
minimum number of these languages maybe as little as two. 
Comparative typology cannot reveal language universals but it does contribute 
to Structural typology with the results of its comparative studies of concrete 
languages for further elaboration of linguistic universals. In its turn, Structural ty-
pology contributes to comparative typological studies while identifying correspon-
dences in diverse languages. 
One of the major differences between Structural and Comparative typology is that 
the latter operates with cross-level units of the languages while the former (Structural 
typology) utilizes mainly the level isolation or one level approach. 
In Comparative typology, the cross-level, cross-class units of expression are ini-
tially identified in each of compared languages separately. On the second stage of the 
typological operation the cross-language equivalents and cross-level correspondents 
are identified, isomorphic and allomorphic features are revealed. 
The major principle of Comparative typology is binarity: thus initially two 
genetically and/or structurally different languages are compared as the 
representatives of their genetic /structural groups. Further, the number of compared 
languages can be increased but still with the observation of the binary principle.
Structural typology
is the major branch of Comparative Typology and aims to 
identify structural language types. Structural typology has 4 branches: 
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language universals;

typological classification; 

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ethalon language;
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typological theory. 
The ultimate goal of Structural typology is identifying universal features of lan-
guages. Major scholars who contributed to the development of structural typology 
are B. Uspenskiy, V.R Nedyalkov, Ch. Hockette, 
Yu.Rojdestvenskiy.