1. Foreword (by Vachek, Josef); 2. Introduction; 3. I: Introductory Survey; 4. Prague School teachings of the Classical Period and Beyond (by Leska, Oldrich); 5. Formal and computational Linguistics in Prague (by Sgall, Petr); 6. II: Fundamental Issues; 7. Menschlich Gleichartigkeit und inter- wie intrakulturelle Mannigfaltigkeit (by Holenstein, Elmar); 8. Jakobson and Chomsky on Markedness (by Battistella, Edwin); 9. Functional System and Evaluation (by Cermak, Frantisek); 10. Structural Linguistics and Formal Semantics (by Peregrin, Jaroslav); 11. III: Sentence Structure; 12. A Contrastive View of Syntactic Ambiguities (by Duskova, Libuse); 13. Surface and Underlying Word Order (by Hajicova, Eva); 14. Structural Properties of Information Packaging in German and in Universal Grammar (by Abraham, Werner); 15. Underlying Structures and Unification (by Petkevic, Vladimir); 16. IV: Discourse Patterns; 17. A Static View and a Dynamic View on Text and Discourse (by Danes, Frantisek); 18. Discourse Modelling for Automatic Summerising (by Jones, Karen Sparck); 19. V: Views on development; 20. The Redudancy of Grammatical Agreement as a Development (by Nemec, Igor); 21. Convergent Evolution, Creolization and Referentiality (by Topolinska, Zuzanna); 22. Die ersten stufen des Erwerbs der slowenischen Flexion: Eine Fallstudie (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.); 23. The Last of the Canterbury Tales: Artificial Intelligence in the Fith Millennium (by Mey, Jacob L.); 24. VI: Theory of Literature; 25. A Work as a "Thing" and as a Sign (by Jankovic, Milan); 26. Symbol and the "Metaphysics of Presence" (by Svaton, Vladimir); 27. Winston S. Churchill's Use of Alliteration (by Nosek, Jiri)