Jalones decimonónicos en la concepción gramatical de la RAE

Abstract

Gema B. GARRIDO VÍLCHEZ: Nineteenth Century Milestones in the Grammatical Conceptualization of the RAE. Of the numerous nineteenth century editions of the academic Gramática, three stand out as milestones: the GRAE from 1854, 1870 and 1880. The covers of each of these three texts present them as “new editions”. Indeed, they are considerable milestones in the doctrinal evolution of this Institution: each one of them would be a model for all the editions that followed until the publication of the next milestone (which does not mean that the body of the doctrine was never partially redone in some of the intermediate editions). To provide a description of the grammatical theory that the three editions contain, one must, first look into the conceptualization of the Grammar that is defended in them (by way of the definition, division and characteristics attributed to the discipline) and also the way in which the books are structured and the objectives that each was meant to achieve.