COMPENSATORY SYNTACTICAL TYPOLOGY: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES
The present article provides a scientific grounding to the basics of compensatory syntactic typology. Having critically assessed current and historical typological data, we suggest a new term compensatory syntactic typology and provide a definition for it. The article also provides the parameters of compensatory syntactic typology at the structural, semantic and grammatical levels. Using the parameters of syntactic typology, we give and analysis of structural and semantic modifications of Belarusian and systematize these modifications.