Research at the ILG (1971–1990) and the importance of the ALGa in the standardization of the Galician language

Abstract

At the beginning of the 1960s Dámaso Alonso and A. Zamora Vicente complained about modern Galician studies falling behind the times. In this article I will refer, first of all, to achieving the recovery of lost ground over the next two decades through research, mostly in oral Galician, and spreading that work amongst Romance-languages specialists, in which the Galician Language Institute (ILG) of the University of Santiago de Compostela played a fundamental role during the time of its originator and first director Constantino García (1971–1990). After some notes on the emerging questione della lingua galega with the publication of the Galician norms by the Royal Galician Academy (RAG) and the manual Gallego 1 by the ILG at the beginning of the 1970s, I will focus on the attempt to resolve this issue with the conciliatory Bases prá unificación das normas lingüísticas do galego (1977), for which the unpublished material of the Atlas Lingüístico Galego was taken into account in both morphological and some of the lexical proposals, which were the foundation of the current Galician standards drawn up by the ILG and the RAG in 1982.