Leibniz on Locke on language the study and use of etymology in Leibniz the history of linguistics and Professor Chomsky Locke's reputation in 19th-century England the tradition of Condillac Condillac's speechless statue Thomas Sprat John Wilkins an outline of language-origins theory since the Renaissance Breal vs Schleicher - reorientation in linguistics Wilhelm von Humboldt and the linguistic thought of the French ideologues Taine and Saussure Wordsworth, language and romanticism Breal, la semantique, and Saussure.
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Keach et al. (1985) studied this question.