| Summary: | The aim of this text is to contribute to the clarification of the relationship of two linguistic notions: langue and norm. Ignoring the notion of norm as it is treated in the theory of the standard language, the goal of this text is to better understand what it means when linguists relate the general notion of norm to langue. A review of conceptions of the langue-norm relationship developed by some of 20th century linguists serves as a basis for this analysis, in particular conceptions by F. de Saussure, some linguists of Prague School of Linguistics, L. Hjelmslev, T. Milewski, E. Coseriu, and E. Itkonen. This historical review is followed by a "typology" of these conceptions, and notes on some general aspects of langue-norm relationship.
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