Frontmatter -- FOREWORD -- FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH EDITION -- CONTENTS -- PART ONE FROM THE HISTORY OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS -- 1. THE EMERGENCE OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS -- 2. IMMEDIATE FORERUNNERS OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS -- 3. THE CLASSICAL SCHOOLS OF STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS -- PART TWO LINGUISTIC MODELS -- 4. THE CONCEPT OF LINGUISTIC MODELS -- 5. TYPES OF LINGUISTIC MODELS -- 6. ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS -- PART THREE RESEARCH MODELS -- INTRODUCTION -- 7. DECIPHERMENT MODELS -- 8. EXPERIMENTAL MODELS -- PART FOUR SPEECH MODELS -- INTRODUCTION -- 9. GENERATIVE MODELS -- 10. MODELS OF SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS -- 11. MODELS OF SEMANTIC ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS -- PART FIVE METATHEORY -- METATHEORY -- CONCLUSIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX