Abstract
In spite of the broad array of their interests and languages studied, linguists of the Prague Linguistic Circle, at least in its classical period (1926-1948), did not paid much theoretical attention to Chinese, with the exception of the typologist Skalička. Yet their methodology had an immense influence on other linguists dealing with Chinese later, including the whole Prague School of Sinology and Chinese structuralism.
This article represents the first attempt to the date to trace the relationship between Prague structuralism and Chinese linguistics.