Nebrija en la lingüística misioneragramaticografía

Abstract

Nebrija’s Introductiones latinae were the dominant text in the Hispanic sphere. There is evidence that the work was used, not only in Spain, but also by missionary grammarians in America. More doubtful is that Nebrija’s Castilian Grammar was sufficiently known and handled by the missionaries. Nebrija’s work exerted a great influence on many of the grammatical arts of the missionaries of the 16th and early 17th centuries. The doctrine, the components of the grammar, the organization according to the parts of the sentence, the chapters on the name, on the verb or on the figures, all of this reveals Nebrija’s imprint. Together with Nebrija’s work, the missionaries used other Latin grammars, that of Manuel Alvares and the Institutiones latinae of Juan Luis de la Cerda. Despite the influence of Ne-brija, the missionaries adapted the categories of Latin grammar to their descriptive needs