El tratamiento de las partes de la oración en el Arte de la lengua Española de Juan Villar: entre los postulados sanctianos y la tradición escolar

Abstract

In this detailed study of the system of word classes (or parts of the sentence) proposed by the Jesuit Juan Villar in his Arte de la Lengua Española (Valencia, 1651), we highlight both the features shared with El Brocense’s innovating theories and those stemming from more traditional frameworks. We argue that Villar departs from Nebrija’s El Arte as revised and modified by Juan Luis de la Cerda (also a Jesuit). Father De la Cerda’s work (De institutione grammatica , 1601) had already combined the ideas contained in Introductiones Latinae  by Nebrija with those El Brocense had introduced in his Minerva  –which surely led Villar to adopt a mixed perspective in his treatment of the parts of the sentence.