Branch of European structuralism arising from the Prague Linguistic Circle, which was founded in 1926 by V.Mathesius, B.Trnka, J. Vachek and others. The theses of this school were first presented at a Slavicist conference in The Hague (1928), and it...

n. The name commonly given to the work done by linguists associated with the Prague Linguistic Circle in the 1920s and 1930s. The Prague School, whose leading theorists were Nikolai Trubetzkoy and Roman Jakobson, is best known for its work in...

British variant of structuralism, which distin-guishes itself from other branches above all through the following. (a) The object of investigation is not primarily the language system (langue) ( langue vs parole), but rather language use ( usage vs...

Syntactic structure which consists of a prepositional object and a function verb (e.g. to bring to completion). Functional verb structures are formed in the following manner: the original verbal meaning of completion is realized by nominalization to an...

The Prague Linguistic Circle or "Prague school" (French Cercle linguistique de Prague, Czech Pražský lingvistický kroužek) was an influential group of literary critics and linguists in Prague. Its proponents developed methods of structuralist...