Contents:

Prefatory Note.........................................................................5

1. O.O. Potebnja's Conception of Russian Morphosyntax Viewed in its Historical Context.............9
2. V. Jagic's Contribution to Slavic Syntax.......................................................21
3. A.M. Peskovskij's Vision of Russian Syntax.....................................................51
4. S. Ivsic's Contribution to Slavic Comparative Linguistics......................................67
5. Baudouin de Courtenay as Perceived by American Linguists (R. Jakobson and E. Stankiewicz)......75

6. Jakobson's Contribution to Slavic Accentology..................................................87
7. Jakobson's Inquiry Into the Cultural Legacy of the Slavic Middle Ages..........................99
8. Jakobson's Final Word on Phonology............................................................139
9. Jakobson's Concept of General Meaning.........................................................147
10. Jakobson's Notion of the Linguistic Sign: From Saussure to Peirce............................171

i. L. V. Scerba..................................................................................211
ii. J. Bauer.....................................................................................215
iii. M.Vasmer....................................................................................219
iv. A. Schmaus...................................................................................229

v. R. Ekblom.....................................................................................231
vi. A. Sjoberg...................................................................................235
vii. N.A. Nilsson................................................................................241