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

The third period is relatedto development of comparative historical linguistics
, 
genealogical and typological classification of languages, (mid- XIX c.) 
The fourth period is related
to 
establishing of Comparative Typology as a 
separate science
with the bulk of General Linguistics. It coincides with the XX 
century. 
The science of linguistic comparison was developing quite slowly and a number of 
factors played an important role to foster that process.They were also suggested by 
Dr. Buranov. 

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The first factor istypological imitation, 
means using identified style or form of languages 
to explain another language. For example, the 
first Latin grammar "De Lingua Latina" (117-27 
ВС) by Varron was written with the use 
of the ancient Greek language grammars 
compiled by Greek philosophers. His 
great contributions were changing 5 
cases in Greek into 6 and 8 parts of 
speech into 7 in English. 
Later, the grammar of European 
languages was shaped based on Latin 
and 
Greek 
languages. 
Besides, 
nowadays not only grammar but poetic 
speech and other language units are still 
based on Greek grammar. 
Also, while studying certain categories of one language scholars very often 
use the models of more researched languages, e.g. the ancient Indian models of com-
pound words are used to describe many European languages
The second factor is characterized as a period of the appearance
of 
scientific 
comparative works.
Comparisons of languages and linguistic units date back to 
theancient period. Comparisons were 
scripted in “Port Royal Grammar” where 
ancient 
scholars 
such 
as 
Antoine 
Arnauld,Claude 
Lancelot, 
analyzed 
similarities 
and 
differences 
between 
French, Latin, Greek and ancient Jewish 
languages. They have found out that out of 
these languages ancient Jewish language 
did not share substantial similarity with 
other languages. The Port Royal Grammar 
was extremely popular and gave an impetus 
to therapid development of comparative 
studies.
Until recent times, this book has been used in modern typology. N. 
Kretsman pointed out this book’s importance and said: “In the last seven or eight 
years the “Port Royal Grammar” has been discussed more often in the English 

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speaking world than at any other time since its publication more than three 
hundred years ago”.
Comparative Typology that dealt with comparing of language units and 
languages that did not share common root language played an important role in the 
emerging and developing of this subject. Comparison of structural languages that 
were not substantial also was crucial in the development of ComparativeTypology.