From Cuervo to CORDIAM linguistic corpus in the context of the history of american spanish

This paper presents a historiographic review of how the historical study of Spanish in America arose. Spanish-American dialectology begins with the Cuervo’s paper (1901). From there, diachronic data were gradually incorporated that traced the diachronic physiognomy of the arrival of the Spanish in the Indies. However, it will not be until the second half of the 20th century when a true interest in the history of Spanish in America begins to take place. The contribution of some linguists was essential, although the project of the "Historical Study of Spanish in America" did not begin its journey until the eighties. From there, a whole generation of researchers will bring to light very relevant archival documentation. This work shows the contextualization of the first documentary contributions up to the appearance of the Corpus Diacrónico y Diatópico del español de América (CORDIAM), a fundamental platform in the history of the Spanish language in America.