Linguistic ideas in Latin America: the theoretical model of Espinosa Pólit

Abstract

This article is a contribution to a recent research perspective on the reception of linguistic ideas in Latin America (whose study usually involves a restructure and/or an extension of the history of Spanish linguistic thought); and it is also a study of the originality on the development of linguistics in Latin America and, specifically, in Ecuador, which has no presence in the bibliography of the history of linguistics. The concrete study of Espinosa's grammar (1) customizes modern concepts based in tradicional theories; and (2) highlights the development of an eclectic grammatical reflection and (3) its didactic transposition in a different sense of the well-known history of Spanish grammar, for example, in the case of RAE, Benot or Bello.