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This article tries to outline the general background of grammatical studies in Catalan by the end of the 19th century and beginnings of the 20th century, while phocusing on the work of the Valencian grammarian Josep Nebot i Pérez, his linguistic ideology and his interesting proposal [...]

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It is a well known fact that school manuals' of the 18th and 19th centuries centred on the teaching of Rhetoric are closely linked with those geared towards the study of language in general and of Grammar in particular. The article, based on the work by Marcet-Solà, shows the relevance [...]

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The autors reconstruct the biography of Father Soler, explain why he re-edited Espill de ben viure in Catalan, and discuss the morphological and lexical annotations he made in the edition.

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Starting with the as yet unpublished writings of the scholar, Antoni de Bastero, the authors reflect on this Catalan author’s interest on dialectal aspects of the Catalan language. This would place Bastero in the state-of-the-arts of dialectology in this country.