Gramática de la lengua castellana

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Title page of a later edition of Nebrijas Grammatica (1550)

The Gramatica de la lengua castellana ("Grammar of the Castilian Language") was written by Antonio de Nebrija and was first published in 1492 in Salamanca . This first grammar of Spanish was also the first grammatical textbook of a modern European language. In addition to maintaining the Spanish national language as a unifying element, the grammar dedicated to the Castilian Queen Isabel should also serve the power-relevant aspects of the language, in words assigned by Nebrija Hernando de Talavera , the then Bishop of Avila: “After ... barbarian peoples have been subjected to different languages, these will have to accept the laws imposed by the conquerors on the conquered, as well as our language. Thanks to this work they will be able to learn how to learn Latin according to the Latin grammar. "

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Nebrija divided the work into four main parts:

Another part dealt with the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language.

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Various works had already appeared on the grammar and use of Latin; with the Grammatica, however, the rules of a Western European language were examined for the first time, based on the Latin grammar.

Later published works on the Spanish language include:

  • Antonio de Nebrija, Reglas de orthographia en la lengua castellana cõpuestas por el Maestro Antonio de lebrixa ("Rules of orthography [...]", 1517) ( bdh.bne.es )
  • Juan de Valdés , Dialogo đla lengua ("Dialogue on Language", approx. 1535, manuscript) ( bdh.bne.es )
  • Martín Cordero, La manera de escrivir en castellano, o para corregir los errores generales en que todos casi yerran ("How to write in Castilian [...]", 1556) ( bdh.bne.es )
  • Andrés Flórez, Arte para bien leer y escrivir en romance castellano ("The art of good reading and writing [...]", 1557) ( bdh.bne.es )
  • Cristóbal de Villalón, Gramatica Castellana. Arte breve y compendiosa para saber bablar y escrevir enla lengua Castellana congrua y deçentemente. Por el Liçençiado Villalon. ("Castilian grammar. [...]", 1558) ( GB )
  • Gonzalo Correas, Ortografia kastellana, nueva i perfeta ("Castilian orthography [...]", 1630) ( bdh.bne.es )
  • Real Academia Española , Gramática de la Lengua Castellana, compuesta por el Real Academia Española ("Grammar of the Castilian Language", Madrid, 1771) ( bdh.bne.es )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Preface to the grammar by Antonio de Nebrija, in it ( bdh.bne.es ; inauthentic, modernized version: ensayistas.org ): “[...] el mui reverẽdo padre obispo de avila me arrebató la respuesta: y respondiendo por mi dixo . Que despues que vuestra alteza metiesse debaxo de su iugo muchos pueblos barbaros y naciones de peregrinas lẽguas: y conel vẽcimiento a q̃llos ternian necessidad de recebir las leies: quel vencedor pone al vencido y con estas nuestra lengua: entonirces en por estas nuestra lengua: entonirte conocimiẽto della como agora nos otros deprendemos el arte de la gramatica latina para deprender el latin. "