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The language of the sacred texts was being replaced and grammar rules were developed so that people could still understand the archaic language. Greeks paid attention to the origin of language, parts of speech and the relation between language and thought. Then the Romans put emphasis was on morphology.
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A group of Scholars called The Modistae tried to explain how the intellect had created a system of grammar and compiled lists of ways of signifying that were universal. Language was a tripartite system: modes of being, modes of understanding, and modes of signifying.
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Due to Voyages and colonization, European people became acquainted with a wide variety of languages. Etymology became important to establish language relationships. There were three main criteria for establishing family relationships: basic vocabulary, sound correspondence and grammatical agreement.
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A group of young German scholars studied how sounds have changed through the history of a language. The father of Modern Linguistics arose from among the Neogrammarians.
