Título completo: A new spanish grammar; or, the elements of the spanish language: containing an easy and compendious method to speak and write it correctly

Local de publicação: Londres/Inglaterra

Quantidade de edições: 9?

Editora:  J. Nourse

Gramática escolar:

• Título: “an easy and compendious method to speak and write it correctly”

Gramática normativa:

• “Grammar is the art of speaking and writing a language correctly” (p. 1).

• “The Spanish grammar, as all other books, is composed of words, all words are composed of letters, and all letters are either Vowels or Consonants.” (p. 1).

• “As a great many who desire to learn Spanish do not understand Latin or Grammar, I thought it proper to exhibit to the reader, in the beginning of this, the most common definitions of technical words made use of by Grammarians.” (Preface – p. xii).

Gramática contrastiva

• “The principles and rules for pronunciation are as simple […] as possible, by the method I followed, of painting to the eyes, by the similar English sounds, that of the Spanish vowels […].” (Preface – p. xiii)

OBJETIVOS DO AUTOR

• Título: “an easy and compendious method to speak and write it correctly”.
• Uma gramática feita para anglofalantes leigos que desejam aprender espanhol: As a great many who desire to learn Spanish do not understand Latin or Grammar, I thought it proper to exhibit to the reader, in the beginning of this, the most common definitions of technical words made use of by Grammarians. (Preface – p. xii).

CONCEPÇÃO DE LÍNGUA, NORMA E GRAMÁTICA

Gramática:

• “Grammar is the art of speaking and writing a language correctly.” (p. 1).
• “The Spanish grammar, as all other books, is composed of words, all words are composed of letters, and all letters are either Vowels or Consonants.” (p. 1).

REFERÊNCIA:

GIRAL DEL PINO, José. A new spanish grammar; or, the elements of the spanish language: containing an easy and compendious method to speak and rrite it correctly. Londres: J. Nourse, 1766.