Publisher's Synopsis
<div>This volume, consisting of nineteen articles from <i>Readings in Linguistics I</i> and twenty articles from <i>Readings in Linguistics II</i>, constitutes an invaluable collection of papers in English, German, and French on subjects of continuing interest to linguists of all schools. Complete with a new preface explaining the editors' principles of selection and bibliographical citations, <i>Readings in Linguistics I & II</i> includes the influential work of Bloomfield, Trubetzkoy, Firth, Harris, and Kurylowicz, as well as important but less accessible articles by Vachek, Bazell, Chao, Fischer-Jorgensen, and Tesniere.</div>
