Linguistic speculation and investigation, insofar as is known, has gone on in only a small number of societies. To the extent that Mesopotamian, Chinese, and Arabic learning dealt with grammar , their treatments were so enmeshed in the particularities of those languages and so little known to the European world until recently that they have had ... More @Wikipedia
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