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(Karcevskij); homonymy (Trnka); emphasis (Mathesius); taboo (Trost). Genetic comparison recedes into the background, etymology is inconspicuous to the vanishing point, and syntax plays second fiddle, unless its shaken status is redeemed by collateral reference to phonemics, as in Karcevskij's lengthy paper "Sur la phonologie de la phrase"-all this as expected from one's earlier exposure to Prague School preferences. Rut the rigorous exclusion of metrics and metaphorics runs counter to legitimate anticipations and seems to involve a bit of private editorial caprice. Vachek has succeeded in fitting into a book of reasonable length-though one far too costly for its less than attractive physical appearance-a wealth of materizl hitherto available, on this side of the Atlantic, only in a few research libraries, part of it, a t that, couched in languages familiar solely to a minority of potential readers; for this service we owe him gratitude. But, in delimiting the scope of the Prague School, he has interpreted his assignment in a distressingly unimaginative way. This parochial narrowness and arbitrary confinement to the original locale and its nearest affiliates-for the sake of authenticity?-have hindered him from disclosing the powerful impact of the Prague School on such versatile, mentally elastic, and influential Indo-Europeanists as Kurylowicz, Benveniste, and Martinet, whose writings one is shocked to see excluded. The increasingly important connection with Romance scholarship (T. Navarro, A. Alonso, E. Alarcos Llorach, D. Catalkn on the side of Spain; G. Contini, C. Segre, V. Belardi, on the Italian flank; G. Gougenheim in France; H. Lausberg and H. Weinrich in Germany; B. Malmberg in Sweden, to mention just a few names, plus their numerous disciples in two hemispheres) has been unwarrantedly swept under the rug; and the stature of the School has been commensurately diminished. What we need now without further delay, and preferably from an impartial, uncommitted anthologist, is a companion reader embodying the currently relevant worldwide repercussions of the practically defunct Prague School.
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