Abstract
WHEN CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS SET FOOT ON AMERICAN SOIL, he launched the Castilian language on a new phase of the imperial career that Antonio de Nebrija had foreshadowed in the first Castilian grammar (Gramatica de la lengua castellana, 1492): Language has always been the companion of empire.! Legal templates were an essential part of this enterprise. No sooner did the admiral go ashore in October 1492 on the island Guanahani in the language of the Indians than he called over his companions, including Rodrigo de Escobedo, his notary,
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