Nebrija’s syntatic theory in its historical setting
W. Keith Percival
Summary Antonio de Nebrija (1444?–1522) inherited his syntactic theory from a grammatical tradition which had developed in Italy the High Middle Ages more or less independently of speculative northern Europe. The distinctive features this system are following: (1) main verb sentence governs not only oblique cases complements but also nominative case subject. (2) Verbs subclassified depending on morphological their nominal complements. must have assimilated as student 1460s.
Historiographia Linguistica