In linguistic typology, the linguistic features of language and languages are analysed, and questions about similarities and dissimilarities as well as about the comparability, distribution and frequency of linguistic features are raised. In language documentation, the linguistic repertoire of a speech community, usually speaking an underdocumented language, is recorded, annotated, preserved, and analysed from a descriptive, historical, typological, literary or sociolinguistic perspective. These closely connected linguistic fields are well established in the linguistic research of our faculty by typologically oriented research projects which focus on phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic structures of diverse languages and varieties, including the development and maintenance of language corpora and databases.