Juan de Valdés, Dialogo đla lengua ("Dialogue on the language", ca.Antonio de Nebrija, Reglas de orthographia en la lengua castellana cõpuestas por el Maestro Antonio de lebrixa ("Rules of orthography ", 1517) ( ).Other grammars of the Spanish language followed: Following its publication, grammar came to be considered as the discipline concerned with the rules of language, until the advent of linguistics as a scientific discipline in the 19th century. Works had previously been published on Latin usage, such as Lorenzo Valla's De Elegantiis Latinae Linguae (1471), but Grammatica was the first book to focus on the study of the rules of a Western European language besides Latin. The book established ten parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, participles, prepositions, adverbs, interjections, conjunctions, gerunds and supines.
Nebrija divided his study of the language into four books:Ī fifth book was dedicated to the teaching of Spanish as a foreign language. When it was presented to Isabella of Castile at Salamanca in the year of its publication, the queen questioned what the merit of such a work might be Fray Hernando de Talavera, bishop of Avila, answered for the author in prophetic words, as Nebrija himself recalls in a letter addressed to the monarch:Īfter Your Highness has subjected barbarous peoples and nations of varied tongues, with conquest will come the need for them to accept the laws that the conqueror imposes on the conquered, and among them our language with this work of mine, they will be able to learn it, as we now learn Latin from the Latin Grammar It was the first work dedicated to the Spanish language and its rules, and the first grammar of a modern European language to be published. 'Grammar of the Castilian Language') is a book written by Antonio de Nebrija and published in 1492. JSTOR ( March 2009) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Gramática de la lengua castellana" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This article needs additional citations for verification.