Abstrakt
Based on the documentary evidence of the Prague Linguistic Circle Collection in the Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences as well as other sources partially unknown until now, the paper pays attention to the famous Theses of 1929, a text that significantly influenced the history of linguistics. The paper analyses two main topics: 1) the genesis of the text and its subsequent diffusion in the world; 2) some linguistics aspects of the text, mainly of its French original version, and the problems with the interpretation of certain ideas in the text that arise from an inappropriate translation of some terms.
The article indicates that only a reader with the knowledge of Czech/Slavic languages can completely understand some ideas in the Theses.
