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Part 1 Renaissance linguistics: Western Europe; Roman Slavdom; OrthodoxSlavdom. Part 2 The early modern period: the reawakening of researchinterest; fields of evidence, backgrounds, myths and paradigms; Bacon; thedescription of languages and the accumulation of linguistic data; the"original language" and linguistic research; the Port-Royal "Grammar" and"Logic"; projects for "universal" and "philosophical" languages; Hobbes andLocke; Leibniz; accumulation of linguistic data; Vico; Condillac; the"genius" and specificity of languages - the dispute on word order; animals,machines and languages; origin, formation and function of language; the"Encyclopedie" and linguistic thought; the "discovery" of Sanskrit; epilogue.