ABSTRACT
This is the second of the core methodology chapters, focusing on the typological method. Initially, the chapter will describe the emergence of Greenbergian typology in the mid-twentieth century and the main interests and focuses of this approach. A following section will focus on data mining for typology and give a brief and compact introduction to linguistic fieldwork. Finally, the chapter will introduce three different applications of the typological method, besides language description and a search for language universals: the reconstruction of early language, the observation of the evolution of language types, and the combination of the comparative method and typology in the method of diachronic typology. All chapter sections will have lists of useful resources and further reading.
