This volume, consisting of 19 articles from "Readings in Linguistics I" and 20 articles from "Readings in Linguistics II", constitutes a collection of papers in English, German and French on subjects of continuing interest to linguists of all schools. Complete with a new preface explaining the editors' principles of selection and bibliographical citations, "Readings in Linguistics I & II" includes the work of Bloomfield, Trubetzkoy, Firth, Harris and Kurylowicz, as well as articles by Vachek, Bazell, Chao, Fischer-Jorgensen and Tesniere.