%0 Journal Article
%T "De ¡°gram¨¢tica para americanos¡± a ¡°gram¨¢tica de todos¡±. El caso de Bello (1847)"["From ¡®Gram¨¢tica para americanos¡¯ to ¡®Gram¨¢tica de todos¡¯. The Case of Bello (1847)"]
%A Jos¨¦ J. G¨®mez Asencio
%J Revista Argentina de Historiograf¨ªa Ling¨¹¨ªstica
%D 2009
%I Revista Argentina de Historiograf¨ªa Ling¨¹¨ªstica
%X This paper discusses Andr¨¦s Bello¡¯s Gram¨¢tica de la lengua castellana destinada al uso de los americanos (1847). In doing so, it reviews its critical position on the academic grammars that circulated between 1796 and 1854 and the changes introduced by Salv¨¢ in 1830. Then, it analyzes Bello¡¯s Gram¨¢tica in the light of some of its tenets: the attempt to unify language from the different varieties of Spanish; the choice of educated over popular language; the canon-based choice of literary texts; the preference of written language as superior to speech; the rejection of loans and structural neologisms; and the delatinization of grammar. The conclusion drawn from the analysis is that, despite Bello¡¯s like of Peninsular Spanish, his Gram¨¢tica is, on the basis of its innovative doctrine, a theoretical construct that gives an account of the general linguistic system of Spanish, irrespective of the specific morphological and syntatic features of historical, regional or social varieties.
%K Gram¨¢tica
%K Bello
%K Spain
%K Americas
%K linguistic historiography
%U http://www.rahl.com.ar/Revistas/I%20-%202009/gomezasencio-RAHL-%281%292009.pdf