La Révolution Technologique de la Grammatisation
by Sylvain Auroux
The big figure here is Antonio de Nebrija, who wrote a grammar of Spanish. Until then, the only languages that had explicit grammars were Greek and Latin
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“The author is a French linguist and historian and this book explores the new view of language which was adopted about the time of the Renaissance. The big figure here is the Spaniard Antonio de Nebrija (1444 – 522). He did two things that nowadays don’t seem so extraordinary but represented at the time a completely new view of language. First, he wrote a grammar of his own language, which was Spanish. Up to this time, the only languages that had explicit grammars were Greek and Latin. These grammars had been written more than 1,500 years earlier.” Read more...
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