La penetración del modelo gramatical ‘general’ de tipo escolar en España: Sus orígenes franceses (final del siglo XVIII y principio del XIX)

In this article the infiltration of the ‘general’ model into the educational systen in Spain is being studied. The author undertakes to demonstrate the diffusion of a scholastic general grammar in this country is not only connected — as in France — to the evolution of theory-internal matters, in other words, in relationship with purely linguistic conceptions, but also determined — and this in a decisive manner that would surprise historians of linguistics — by events external to linguistics, such as changes in the scholastic framework or the legislation pertaining to education generally. It is also shown that if the starting and the ending points of this infiltration of the general grammar in these two countries occurred almost during the same period, there is nevertheless little that these developments have in common, given differing external events in France and Spain, not even in the manner in which this kind of transfer actually took place.