"Structuralism" is a term used to refer to the various trends in modern language science that emerged and dominated the interwar period. In this intercontinental effort towards a thorough scientific method, a group of scholars met at the crossroads of Eastern and Western cultural trends, known worldwide as the "Prague School". They have produced a great deal of basic research—many long out of print or otherwise unavailable—that deal with important questions linguistics. Josef Vachek, a senior fellow at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, one of the original and most prominent representatives of functional linguistics, has compiled and edited an anthology of these papers only for the historical and theoretical study of linguistics at Indiana University.Including A. Artymovyč, Bohuslav Havránek, Karel Horálek, A. V. lsačenko, Roman Jakobson, Serge Karcevskij, J. M. Korínek, Vilem Mathesius, L'udo-vít Novák, Eugéne Pauliny, I. Poldauf, Vladimir Skalička, B. Trnka, P. Trost , N. S. Troubetzkoy and Josef Vachek.
