Hell or paradise? The axiological discourse on the superiority or the inferiority of the agglutinating structure

Abstract

We will first recall the place of the agglutinating structure in the historicotypological speculations of the first romantic grammarians; secondly, we will try to understand the paradox of N. Trubetzkoy, who is the defender of the agglutinating structure of the “Turanian” languages, giving them an ideal of regularity. The third paradox is that the “proletarian Esperantists”, so despised by the Eurasists, had the same ideal of agglutination. We will try to provide a synthesis of these various approaches to agglutination to see if, beyond the apparent oppositions, we can bring to light a set of common assumptions about typology.