Towards a Scientific Typology

Typology is, among the various sciences of language, most qualified to reach the status of a real science. It is presently very active at the international level, although it lacks clear theoretical principles. It is claimed in this article that structuralism of Saussurean inspiration, completed by a theoretically founded methodology for comparing languages, provides means of progressing towards scientific linguistics and establishing a clear-cut boundary between linguistics and other cognitive sciences. Adapted from the source document