The XVII Congress of the Association of Academies of the Spanish Language (Asale), which closes this afternoon in Quito (Ecuador), has been the scene of the presentation of the second revised and expanded edition of the New grammar of the Spanish language ( Ngle), one of the capital works of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the Asale.
The RAE academic and director of the work, Ignacio Bosque and the editing coordinator, Cristina Sanchezhave presented the different novelties of this new edition of the Grammar, as reported by the RAE in a note: it is now presented as a more extensive text: three volumes for the contents of morphology and syntax, compared to the two of the first edition of 2009.
In the work – whose new paper version, published by Espasa, will be available in the coming months – the search for a balance between tradition and novelty, between description and norm, between theory and exemplification, between analysis of abstract structures and exhibition has been pursued. of particular uses.
The second edition of the New grammar of the Spanish language has its origin in the corporate motion of the RAE approved in the XVI Asale Congress (Seville, 2019). In this, the publication of a revised, expanded and corrected version of the previous text was proposed in which the internal structure of the work was maintained and at the same time modified everything that could be improved in it.
The review, according to the RAE, has focused on four aspects. «The first of them has been the improvement of the descriptions when there is more data on the contents addressed, whether related to the grammatical analysis of the phenomena or their geographical and social variation. Likewise, attention has been paid to improving the didactic aspects of the writing, given that the work is aimed at a very broad set of recipients. The work has also focused on adding a complementary bibliography to each chapter so that readers can expand the contents presented with the degree of detail they desire and with the theoretical or applied orientation that best responds to their interests. Finally, an expansion of the list of cited texts has been carried out with relevant works (almost all literary) that could not be cited in the previous version or that have been published in recent years.
The present edition, the note clarifies, coincides with the previous one in not presenting itself as a treatise on dialectology, but as a grammar attentive to the phenomena of variation, but fundamentally focused on the description of phonetic, phonological, morphological and syntactic units. In fact, the text is conceived and written to pay particular attention to the relationship between forms, meanings and uses. A good number of details have also been added about the origin of some constructions, their use or their variants in various stages of ancient Spanish.
This new Grammar, the director of the RAE has pointed out, Santiago Muñoz Machado“it is not that the grammar changes, but it does improve the grammatical information in general for Spanish speakers.” Muñoz Machado has also referred to the second edition of the Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubtsalso presented in Quito, and has said that “it solves all the application problems of our language.”
The congress, which closes today, Wednesday the 13th, has also addressed, according to the director of the RAE, “the new developments that we are forced to as a consequence of the digital revolution and fundamentally artificial intelligence. Now we have incorporated a new argument of great interest. which is clear language, the right of citizens to receive from public powers and entities that have dominant positions complete, exact, clear and understandable information so that they can exercise the rights that correspond to them.
Santiago Muñoz Machado has revealed that different issues have been addressed at the congress, such as “the updating of the Dictionary of the Spanish Language, of which the twenty-fourth edition will be completed in 2026; or the Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Language. It is a dictionary that brings together biographies, explanations, articles about each of the words that constitute, that have composed Spanish, that have been part of Spanish throughout history and today. Each entry is an essay on a word that describes the entirety of his biography.
The development of the Historical Dictionary dates back to 1914, but, according to Muñoz Machado, it was given a great boost five years ago, at the congress that the Academies held in Seville in 2019, “so that next year, in 2025, We are going to publish the provisional results, which will consist of three volumes – those we had done between 1960 and 1995 – and seven more volumes, which are the result of our recent works. It is a monumental work because those last seven volumes alone have more than 15,000 pages, which we are currently preparing and which we hope will appear before we celebrate the International Congress of the Spanish Language that will take place in Arequipa, Peru, in the fall of next year.”
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