英汉对比语言学Unit one:Linguistic typology is a subfield of linguistics that studies and classifies languages according to their structural and functional features. Its aim is to describe and explain the common properties and the structural diversity of the worlds languages.Contrastive linguistics is abranchoflinguisticswhichstudiestwoormorelanguageswiththeaims ofdiscoveringtheirdifferencesand similarities(especiallytheformer)and applyingthesefindings to relatedareasofst
