The Linguistic Analysis of Spanish Colonial Documents (LASCODOCS)

FAIN: RT-10003-74

Unaffiliated independent scholar
Peter M. Boyd-Bowman (Project Director: January 1974 to present)

To seek a key to early differentiation of the major present-day varities of American Spanish through analysis of precisely dated documents taken from every region of Spanish America throughout the colonial period. Each linguistic feature noted is assigned a category and place and date of composition, with enough contextual environment to establish rather precisely both function and meaning.