The purpose of this study is to examine the important preceding study of the language typology and the main analysis instruments of language typology applied in the explanation of the Korean grammar. (1) The principal studies, Sapir(1921), Greenberg(1963), Croft(1999) are made a general survey and the main terminology of language typology, ‘concepts type, implication, typological classification, animacy, definiteness, abstractness’ are observed. (2) The general purpose, the subject and method of language typology are examined, which are mentioned in the major language typologist’s thesis. (3) The Korean grammar, ‘causative, adjective, relative clause, part of speech’ are newly dealt with these language typological approach which are comparative, functional, semantic pragmatic.
