Abstract
Vilem Mathesius (1882–1946) was a Czech linguist and the founder and president of the Prague Linguistics Circle. Mathesius specialized in Germanic and Romance studies at Charles University in Prague and later became that university's first professor of ‘Anglistics.’ He wrote widely on topics in English philology and linguistics, but also on more general topics in linguistic theory. His 1911 paper On the potentiality of the phenomena of language was an early classic of European structuralism and echoed some of the ideas expressed in Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in general linguistics , in particular the distinction between the synchronic and the diachronic study of language, and that between language and speech.
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