Historia de la lengua española: creación de una disciplina.

In the construction of philology as a scientific discipline, the history of language became the appropriate subject for putting the new methodology into practice. In Spain, the philologists of the Centro de Estudios Históricos de Madrid also based their studies on the establishment of a historical and evolutionary description of the Castilian language, for which they had to turn to the study of its first manifestations. In this article we propose to tell how the first advances were made in a discipline that moved from the field of research, with the work of the Center, to the academic field with the creation of the Chair of History of the Castilian language. A key date in this process was 1914, when the Revista de Filología Española was founded. That year a new plan of studies was established in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the Universidad Central de Madrid (Spain), which created the chair of History of the language, which was taken over by Américo Castro, who that same year published the translation of Meyer-Lübke’s book, Introducción al estudio de la lingüística romance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]