Studies in General Linguistics and Language StructureEdited and with an introduction by Anatoly Liberman Translated by Marvin Taylor and Anatoly LibermanN. S. Trubetzkoy (18901939) is generally celebrated today as the creator of the science of phonology. While his monumental Grundzge der Phonologie was published posthumously and contains a summary of Trubetzkoys late views on the linguistic function of speech sounds, there has, until now, been no practical way to trace the development of his thought or