Las lenguas de Mesoamérica y sus gramáticas

What is it about?

After the Encounter of New World in the 16 th century, missionaries began to produce grammars of the languages spoken there. In this papers the author proposes to analyse a corpus of forty- six grammars fron Mesoamerica, the region that today is Mexico and Guatemala. In the analysis the author distinguishes five schools according to the established religious orders in New Spain: Franciscan, Dominican, Agustinian, Jesuit and the secular Church. Although the grammars are based in Latin tradition, many of them contain innovative descriptions of the specific structures found in these Mesoamerican Languages.

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