The Trajectory of Galician Literary Language in Carballo Calero’s Grammar

Abstract

In the mid-1960s, Ricardo Carballo Calero collated and sorted the most established forms in Galician literary language dating from the post-Spanish Civil War period in a guidebook aimed at his students at the University of Santiago de Compostela. His work was validated by the Royal Galician Academy in the early 1970s. During the following decade, the later editions of this handbook were progressively refined. The last publication of his grammar (1979) includes an apology of the assimilation of Portuguese orthography (reintegración) by the standard promoted by the Academy, an idea that defines this author’s later intellectual period.