Apuntes para una historia de la teoría gramatical del español en la América del Pacífico: datos y proyección

Abstract

Linguistic-historiographic research involves careful work with sources and materials. This care must be applied not only to the collection of data, but especially to their registration and cataloging. For this reason, Hispanagrama, from the very beginning, used an instrumental base, the Zotero software, which allows us to retrieve the information according to a system of labels made in line with our research hypotheses. In addition, the use of Zotero led us to make methodological choices that contributed to the design of our research. From this research, it emerges, with the support of quantitative data, that Colombia and the second half of the 19th century are the country and the period of preponderance of publications on grammatical theory. This work also shows the potential of this type of historiographical research regarding the kind of grammar that was published, its authors, its recipients and the method of teaching, among other decisive factors that must be included in the description and analysis of the history of grammatical theory.