1. Part I. From the Latin grammarians to the ideologues; 2. Some problems in transferring the Latin model to the first French grammars: Verbal voice, impersonal verbs and the -rais form (by Colombat, Bernard); 3. Un exemple du transfert du modele latin aux premieres grammaires du francais: l'analyse des temps du passe (by Fournier, Jean-Marie); 4. Linguistic ideas and the discourse about languages in early Brazilian history (by Mariani, Bethania); 5. Grammaire generale et grammaire particuliere: Les Methodes de Claude Irson (by Delesalle, Simone); 6. Texts of reference and serial texts in the constitution of a notional paradigm: The example of the French ideologues (by Hassler, Gerda); 7. Part II. Linguistics in the 19th and 20th centuries; 8. The Brazilian hyperlanguage mark in the traditional grammar of the 19th Century (by Leite, Marli Quadros); 9. Revista Ilustrada: Un document sur le langage des Noirs a la fin du XIXe siecle (by Petter, Margarida Maria Taddoni); 10. The "arrested evolution": Notion, theories, myth? (by Velmezova, Ekaterina); 11. On the defense of Von Kempelen as the predecessor of experimental phonetics and speech synthesis research (by Barbosa, Plinio A.); 12. Positivism and neo-positivism in linguistics and language philosophy (by Laurendeau, Paul); 13. From universal languages to intermediary languages in Machine Translation: The work of the Cambridge Language Research Unit (1955-1970) (by Leon, Jacqueline); 14. The Presence of Absence in Saussure's Linguistic Theory (by Christy, T. Craig); 15. La creation des cours de lettres au Bresil et les premieres orientations de la recherche linguistique universitaire (by Fiorin, Jose Luiz); 16. The Portuguese language in the institutionalization of linguistics (by Lagazzi-Rodrigues, Suzy); 17. Humor and language acquisition: Anecdotal data and their route in the history of language acquisition studies (by Figueira, Rosa Attie); 18. Part III. Plenary papers; 19. Reflexions sur l'experience grecque du langage (by Moura Neves, Maria Helena de); 20. Johann Jacob Reiske (1716-1774): Leading force in the establishment of oriental and classical Scholarship in Germany (by Jankowsky, Kurt R.); 21. The context and sense of Humboldt's statement that language 'ist kein werk (ergon), sondern eine tatigkeit (energeia)' (by Aarsleff, Hans); 22. On the Notion of Structure and Structuralism in Brazil (by Orlandi, Eni P.); 23. Les avancees de notre discipline (by Auroux, Sylvain); 24. Index of names; 25. Index rerum