Typology

Typology is the study of types. More specifically, it may refer to:

• Typology (anthropology), division of culture by races
• Typology (archaeology), classification of things according to their characteristics
• Typology (theology), in Christian theology, the interpretation of some characters and stories in the Old Testament as allegories foreshadowing the New Testament
• Typology (urban planning and architecture), the taxonomic classification of characteristics common to buildings or urban spaces
• Linguistic typology, study and classification of languages according to their structural features
  • Linguistic Typology, an international peer-reviewed journal in the field of linguistic typology
  • Morphological typology, in linguistics, a method of classifying languages
• Typology, in psychology, a model of personality types
• Typology (creation biology)

See also

• Type (disambiguation)
• Typification
• Topology and Topology (disambiguation)
• Psychological typologies