Studies in General Linguistics and Language Structure

"This collection of Trubetzkoy's articles and letters from widely scattered sources is an important and welcome contribution to both the history of linguistics and the advancement of current knowledge."--Victor Friedman, University of Chicago

About the author

N.S. Trubetzkoy

Summary

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. This volume sheds light on problems that remain at the center of contemporary linguistics.

Product details

• Authors: Trubetzkoy, N S Trubetzkoy, N. S. Trubetzkoy
• Assisted by: Anatoly Liberman (Editor), Marvin H Taylor (Translation), Marvin H. Taylor (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2001
• EAN: 9780822322801
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2280-1
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics; Sound & Meaning: The Roman Jak; Sound and Meaning: The Roman Jakobson Series in Linguistics and Poetics; Sound and Meaning: The Roman J
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics