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Typologist vs Typology - What's the difference?

typologist | typology | Derived terms |

Typology is a derived term of typologist.



As nouns the difference between typologist and typology

is that typologist is a linguist who specializes in linguistic typology while typology is the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics.

typologist

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A linguist who specializes in linguistic typology.
  • typology

    Noun

    (typologies)
  • the systematic classification of the types of something according to their common characteristics
  • (archaeology) the result of the classification of things according to their characteristics
  • (linguistics) classification of languages according to their linguistic trait (as opposed to historical families like romance languages)
  • Derived terms

    * typological * typologist * linguistic typology * morphological typology

    See also

    * taxonomy * value domain