Author: Trubetzkoy, N. [ Trubetskoi, Nikolai Sergeevich, kniaz' (1890-1938)]
Title: Polabische Studien / von N. Trubetzkoy
Description: Wien / Leipzig, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1929. orig. wrappers. 24x15cm, 167 pages. Series: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-historische Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, 211. Band, 4. Abh.. Minor wear. VG. ¶ ["Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology. He was also associated with the Russian Eurasianists...Trubetzkoy's chief contributions to linguistics lie in the domain of phonology, in particular in analyses of the phonological systems of individual languages and in the search for general and universal phonological laws. His magnum opus, Grundzüge der Phonologie (Principles of Phonology) was issued posthumously. In this book he defined the phoneme as the smallest distinctive unit within the structure of a given language. This work was crucial in establishing phonology as a discipline separate from phonetics...It is sometimes hard to distinguish Trubetzkoy's views from those of his friend Roman Jakobson, who should be credited with spreading the Prague School views on phonology after Trubetzkoy's death..In his biography of the mathematical collective Nicolas Bourbaki, Amir Aczel described Trubetzkoy as a pioneer in structuralism, an interdisciplinary outgrowth of structural linguistics which would be applied in mathematics by the Bourbaki group - as in the notion of a mathematical structure - and in anthropology by Claude Lévi-Strauss, who sought to describe rules governing human behavior...." - wikipedia].

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