ANTOINE
ARNAULD AND CLAUDE
LANCELOT
 Antoine Arnauld
(6 February 1612 –
8 August 1694)

a French Roman Catholic theologian, philosopher and mathematician. 
CLAUDE LANCELOT (C. 1615 – 1695) WAS A
FRENCH JANSENIST MONK AND GRAMMARIAN
THE FIRST EVER ATTEMPT TO CREATE A GRAMMAR ON
"COMMON IN ALL LANGUAGES PRINCIPLES"
UNIVERSAL OR RATIONAL GRAMMAR
(POUR ROYAL, 1660)
WAS HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY THE REGULAE OF RENÉ
DESCARTES
HAS BEEN HELD UP AS AN EXAMPLE OF
EXCELLENCE OF CARTESIAN LINGUISTICS BY NOAM CHOMSKY.
THE CENTRAL ARGUMENT OF THE GRAMMAR IS THAT GRAMMAR
IS SIMPLY MENTAL PROCESSES, WHICH ARE UNIVERSAL
SCHLEGEL BROTHERS
FREDERICK SCHLEGEL
(1772 - 1829).
ON THE GROUND OF:

- ANCIENT INDIAN
- MODERN CHINESE
- POLYNESIAN
-TURKIC
- MAJOR WEST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
SINGLED OUT:

Affixal languages

Inflexional languages
1. AFFIXAL LANGUAGES
2. INFLECTIONAL LANGUAGES
AUGUST SCHLEGEL
(1767 — 1845)
SINGLED OUT:

Those
without any
gramm. Flexional languages
structure

Affixal languages
THE CHINESE LANGUAGE AND THE LANGUAGES OF INDO-CHINA