Aproximaciones a una historia de los estudios filológicos y lingüísticos en Rosario (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, 1952-1967).

This article approaches the beginnings of Philological and Linguistic Studies in the city of Rosario and its institutionalization from the perspective of linguistic historiography. Through the exhumation and analysis of documents scattered in various media and repositories, we reconstruct a decisive period for this subfield's configuration in one of the main national universities in Argentina. The Institute of Philology from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral was founded in 1952 and the subject Linguistics began to be taught in the Letters' degree. The first direction of the Institute did not advance in the objectives initially declared for the center, that aimed to study the local varieties of Spanish. These initial goals were not pursued, but the Institute did lay the foundations for the further development of that area and sustained the training of human resources for more than a decade. 1966-1967 a series of factors converged to give rise to a greater specialization and diversification of the subfield, starting with the establishment of spaces dedicated to dialectology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]