•Grammars for American-Indian languages were published
during this period.
–Tarascan (1558)
–Quechua (1560)
–Nahuatl (1571)
–Guarani (1640)
•Cardinal Ricci:
his journal outlines the difference between Chinese and Western European languages (ex. lack of morphology,
tones, Chinese writing system,
etc.).
•Académie française: (established 1635); body of scholars who determine French language standards
•British Royal Society: (established 1660); did a lot of work with linguistics during the early life of the society.
•George Dalgarno: worked on philosophical languages.
•John Wilkins:
worked on philosophical languages.
•Port Royal Grammarians: took a Rationalist approach to language; They believed in language universals as evidenced by a
common thought structure in
people throughout the civilized world.