Edited and with an introduction by Anatoly Liberman
Translated by Marvin Taylor and Anatoly Liberman
N. S. Trubetzkoy (1890-1939) is generally celebrated today as
the creator of the science of phonology. While his monumental
"Grundzuge der Phonologie" was published posthumously and contains
a summary of Trubetzkoy's late views on the linguistic function of
speech sounds, there has, until now, been no practical way to trace
the development of his thought or to clarify the conclusions
appearing in that later work. With the publication of "Studies in
General Linguistics and Language Structure," not only will
linguists have that opportunity, but a collection of Trubetzkoy's
work will appear in English for the first time.
Translated from the French, German, and Russian originals, these
articles and letters present Trubetzkoy's work in general and on
Indo-European linguistics. The correspondence reprinted here, also
for the first time in English, is between Trubetzkoy and Roman
Jakobson. The resulting collection offers a view of the evolution
of Trubetzkoy's ideas on phonology, the logic in laws of linguistic
geography and relative chronology, and the breadth of his
involvement with Caucasian phonology and the Finno-Ugric
languages.
A valuable resource, this volume will make Trubetzkoy's work
available to a larger audience as it sheds light on problems that
remain at the center of contemporary linguistics.
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