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Some practical orientations are displayed in relation with the translation of Prof. Coseriu's works into several languages, specially into French. Furthermore some norms are given in order to avoid certain distorted uses (which do not belong to his "idiolect").

SUMMARYThe purpose of this paper was to show that Adam Smith (1729-90) contributed significantly to the development of language typology and, as a corollary, to demonstrate the connection between Smith's and the German theory. For this purpose, Coseriu analyzed Smith's ideas on language typology as he developed them in his Dissertation (1761). There, Smith presented a bipartite system grouping languages into compounded and uncompounded languages. The article evaluates from a contemporary vantage point, Smith's system and offers the following observations based on three criteria: 1) structural'. Smith's principle is still valid: The simpler the composition, the more complex the case endings, and vice versa; 2) general-evolutionary. Smith does not always presuppose language mixing as a cause for language change; 3) concretehistorical: Regarding language change, Smith believes that periphrasis is the result of imperfect second-language learning. He also believes that structural change in language is a gradual change. In addition, Coseriu analyzes A.W. Schlegel's ideas on language typology as he developed them in his Observations (1818). Comparing Schlegel's presentation with that of Smith, the author arrives at the following conclusions: All of Smith's theories on language typology reappear in Schlegel's work. Beyond that Schlegel contributed additional insights, such as the assumption that the mixing of two synthetic languages will result in an analytic language; the introduction of new terminology (e.g., the terms synthetic and analytic) ; and the expansion of the analytic method by adding other parts of speech (articles, for instance). As a result of these findings, the conclusion is made that A.W. Schlegel changed Smith's theories as follows: 1) The theories become enlarged and better founded. 2) Smith's typology was reduced to a single language classification; i.e., Smith's classification now becomes a subdivision of inflected languages into synthetic and analytic.RESUMECoseriu vise a mettre en evidence l'importance de la contribution d'Adam Smith au developpement de la typologie des langues et, correlativement, a montrer le lien entre la theorie de Smith et la theorie allemande. Dans ce but, Coseriu analyse les idees de Smith sur la typologie des langues, telles qu'elles sont developpees dans sa Dissertation (1761). Dans cet ouvrage, Smith presentait un systeme biparti, classant les langues en compounded et uncompounded. Avec le recul que donne un point de vue moderne, Coseriu evalue le systeme de Smith et propose les remarques suivantes, fondees sur trois criteres: 1. structure: le principe de Smith reste valide: plus la composition est simple, plus les desinences casuelles sont complexes, et vice versa; 2. d'evolutionisme general: Smith ne presuppose pas toujours un contact de langues pour tout changement linguistique; 3. d'histoire concrete: en ce qui concerne le changement linguistique, Smith croit que la periphrase est le resultat d'un apprentissage imparfait d'une langue seconde; il croit aussi que le changement structurel d'une langue est un changement graduel. Par ailleurs, Coseriu analyse les idees de A.W. Schlegel sur la typologie des langues, telles qu'elles sont developpees dans les Observations (1818). En comparant la presentation de Schlegel avec celle de Smith, Coseriu aboutit aux conclusions suivantes: toutes les theories de Smith sur la typologie des langues reapparaissent dans l'oeuvre de Schlegel. Schlegel y a ajoute de nouvelles perspectives: l'idee que le melange de deux langues synthetiques donne une langue analytique; l'introduction d'une nouvelle terminologie (par exemple, les termes de synthetique et analytique); l'elargissement de la methode analytique par prise en consideration d'autres parties du discours (les articles notamment). A partir de ces constatations, Coseriu conclut que A.W. Schlegel a modifie les theories de Smith de la maniere suivante: 1. il les a elargies et mieux fondees; 2. la typologie de Smith se trouve reduite a une simple classification des langues: a la classification de Smith vient maintenant s'ajouter une subdivision des langues flexionnelles: synthetiques et analytiques.

In this paper, the author presents, through Language theory, some valid thesis for Science theory. His discussion starts from the analysis of the three questions that the classic authors put about the existent relations between language and the world of things, and how these problems keep going along History. The three questions, both classic and modern, are the following: 1) the problem so called by the author "correction of the names"; 2) the functional aspect of sign; and 3) the origin of sign.