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Ten years ago, the eighth issue of Brno Studies in English appeared as an homage volume honouring the sixtieth birthday of Professor Josef Vachek, Ph.Dr. (Caroline University, Prague), Sc.Dr. (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague). It contained an appreciation of Vachek's work in the fields of English and general linguistics (Firbas l!)69a, cf. also 1969b, 1976)1 and a bibliography of his writings (Hladký 1969).2 The present appreciation and the accompanying bibliography (Hladký 1979) form their sequels covering Vachek's writings published within the ten years extending from 1969 to 1978. We consider it most proper for an appreciation and a bibliography to appear in a volume of Brno Studies in English, for it was at Professor Vachek's instigation that the BSE series was started twenty years ago, and moreover Professor Vachek is gratefully remembered by the Brno Anglicists as the virtual founder of the linguistic section of the Brno Dejiartment of English and American Studies (cf. Firbas 1969.9). Being a sequel to an earlier appreciation, the present one will avoid a