Volume 2 of 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 a 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. Cermak, those of quantitative linguistics by M. Tesitelova, 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. Cmejrkova 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.