Spanish Studies: Language and Linguistics

Abstract

Several collective volumes have been published: Historiografia linguistica: lineas actuales de investigacion, ed. elena Battaner Moro, Vicente calvo Fernandez and palma pena Jimenez, 2 vols, Munster, nodus, 2012, xi + 942 pp., contains papers on the history of the Spanish grammatical and lexicographical tradition, specially on 19th-c. authors, the influences between Spanish and portuguese scholars, the american contribution to the history of Spanish Linguistics and covarrubias’s Tesoro (1611) and, to a lesser extent, on the history of the codification of Spanish orthography and pronunciation. the volume also includes a round table discussion on the current status of Linguistics and its history in the Spanish higher education framework (118–40). another two volumes show that 19th-c. linguistics continues to attract attention from scholars: Reflexion linguistica y lengua en la Espana del xix: marcos, panoramas y nuevas aportaciones, ed. alfonso Zamorano aguilar, Munich, Lincom, 2012, 542 pp., is an interdisciplinary work which provides an excellent overview of the topic through several papers, each of them covering a subfield of the discipline through an exhaustive literature review followed by an original contribution; Bibliografia cronologica de la linguistica, la gramatica y la lexicografia del espanol (BICRES IV): Desde el ano 1801 hasta el ano 1860, ed. Miguel Angel esparza torres and hansJosef niederehe, amsterdam, Benjamins, 2012, v + 696 pp., compiles complete and precise bibliographical information on 3279 primary sources from the period, including more than 700 secondary references as well. two further epihistoriographical books have appeared: diana esteba Ramos, Grammaire, lexicographie et litterature espagnole. Catalogue du fonds ancien de la Bibliotheque Nationale et Universitaire de Strasbourg (XVI-XVII), Strasbourg u.p., 115 pp., lists 114 texts in both alphabetical and chronological order; Mara glozman and daniela Lauria, Voces y ecos. Una antologia de los debates sobre la lengua nacional (Argentina, 1900–2000), Buenos aires, cabiria–Biblioteca nacional, 173 pp., is divided into seven sections, each introduced by the compilers, according to the main topics on Spanish language discussed in different periods by the most important argentinian authors. the role of relevant institutions is evaluated through new perspectives: with regard to the Spanish Real academia and the asociacion de academias de la Lengua espanola, Jose del Valle, ‘Linguistic history and the development of normative Regimes: the Royal Spanish academy’s disputed transatlantic authority’, Langer, Language and History, 175–91, assesses the implications on both sides of the atlantic of the absence of the Spanish Institution at the First Spanish academies’ conference in 1951 (Mexico), when the association was founded. Kirsten Suselbeck, *‘Una estirpe, una lengua y un destino.’ Das Sprachideal der Academias de la Lengua Espanola (1950–1998), Madrid, Iberoamericana — Frankfurt, Vervuert, 2012, 484 pp. Jose del