Benvenuto Terracini y Demetrio Gazdaru: dos lecturas <i>desplazadas</i> del archivo glotológico de Graziadio Isaia Ascoli

Abstract

In this paper we aim to focus on two readings on the work of Italian linguist Graziadio Isaia Ascoli produced by European linguists settled in Argentina: Italian Benvenuto Terracini, professor of Linguistics in the University of Tucumán between 1941 and 1946, and Rumanian Demetrio Gazdaru, who taught linguistic courses in different Argentinian universities from 1949 to 1973. We understand such rereadings as a key instance in the respective designs of a history of language studies which both specialists carry out in Argentina. Besides, we interrogate such rereadings as two interventions on the definition of a legitimate linguistic knowledge production from peripheral places, in so far as they establish a Romance tradition alternative to the different Hispanic inscriptions hegemonic in academic discourses on language in Argentina.