On dissensions on the historical relations between Peninsular Spanish and American Spanish
Authors
Juan Antonio Frago Gracia
Departamento de Lingüística General e Hispánica, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Zaragoza, Pedro Cerbuna 12, 50009 Zaragoza
It is a matter of purely scientific dissension whether the history of Peninsular Spanish is to be approached either ignoring the history of American Spanish or paying only marginal attention to it, the same being valid for the research designs which adopt the reverse direction. The dissension as to how this issue is to be addressed is not only a matter of controversy among linguists but among historians as well, specially as to the role that the Andalusian dialect has played in the phonetic evolution of Peninsular Spanish and the linguistic relations holding between this variety and the Spanish transplanted into the American soil. The present study deals with these issues, supporting the overcoming of the doctrinal and empirical tenets of the founding fathers of Hispanic Philology, and maintaining that it is unacceptable the current divorce prevailing in the diachronic research of both varieties of Spanish, particularly on what refers to the foundational stage of the new variety and the process of its settling in the American soil.
Keywords:
Peninsular Spanish, American Spanish, historical relations between Peninsular Spanish and American Spanish, foundational stage phonetics, Andalusian influence in American Spanish
Frago Gracia, J. A. (2008). On dissensions on the historical relations between Peninsular Spanish and American Spanish. Boletín De Filología, 43(2), Pág. 11–49. Retrieved from https://boletinfilologia.uchile.cl/index.php/BDF/article/view/18056
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