Tres gramàtiques per a tres moments de la història de la llengua del vuit-cents

Abstract

This paper proposes to divide the sociolinguistic history of the Catalan language in the 19th century into three periods: a first period that would still be characterized by the linguistic ideologies of the Ancien Régime; a second period in which the ideology of the Renaixença, of regionalist Catalanism, would predominate; and a third period in which Catalanism, already consolidated, would promote a recovery of all sociolinguistic spheres for Catalan. To illustrate the ideologies of each of these three periods, a representative grammar is analysed ideologically: Josep Pau Ballot for the first, Antoni de Bofarull for the second and Pompeu Fabra for the third.