Prague Linguistic Circle Papers : Travaux du cercle linguistique de Prague nouvelle série. Volume 2

Volume 2 of the Prague Linguistic Circle Papers constitutes a single whole together with Vol. 1 of the series, reviving the classical series of Travaux du Cercle linguistique de Prague which was of great importance for the development of European structural linguistics in the 1930s.

In the present volume, nine Czech linguists and eight authors from abroad present new ideas in various domains from basic properties of the system of language to discourse types and to history of linguistics in the 20th century.

Fundamental issues of structural linguistics are discussed by C.H. van Schooneveld and F. Čermak, those of quantitative linguistics by M.

Těsitelova, of sentence structure by H.-H. Lieb, Y. Tobin, J. Panevova, T. Gross and J. Sabrsula, discourse patterns are dealt with by J. Hoffmannova, S. Čmejrkova and F. Sticha, phonology and graphemics by E. Battistella, A. Svoboda and P.A. Luelsdorff with S.V. Chesnokov, and the lexicon by L. Waugh and V. Strakova.