(Masaryk University Honours series, vol.3). Jan Firbas )1921-2000), a follower of the linguistic tradition of the Prague School, became internationally renowned for his theory of Functional Sentence Perspective. The biography of his works comprises more than 150 items scattered across numerous journals and conference proceedings published throughout the world. The publication of the Collected Works of Jan Firbas, containing the author s original papers and reviews along with introductions, annotations, and translations into English of all papers originally written in other languages, will provide access to the entirety of the works of this outstanding scholar. The firts volume, presenting Jan Firbas s earliest works, comprises his papers and reviews written between 1951 and 1967.
