Manuel Milà i Fontanals i la lingüística catalana Authors Francesc Bernat i Baltrons Abstract Although Manuel Milà i Fontanals was mainly a literary scholar, his two main lines of research (troubadour lyrical poetry and popular verse) also led him to become interested in linguistic issues that were closely linked: the origins of the Romance languages, the historical relations between Catalan and Occitan, and the systematization of the main features of the oral varieties of Catalan. In this sense, he was the first philologist to use the methods of the then emerging Romance philology in the scientific description of the Catalan language, for which he can be considered to be the founder of Catalan linguistics. This article aims to consider all the works of Milà devoted to the Catalan language and take stock of their contribution in order to assess the importance of these studies for the history of Catalan philology. Downloads Text complet (Català) Published 2022-03-01 Issue Vol. 44 (2022) Section Articles License Aquesta obra és subjecta —llevat que s'indiqui el contrari en el text, en les fotografies o en altres il·lustracions— a una llicència Reconeixement - No comercial - Sense obres derivades 3.0 Espanya de Creative Commons, el text complet de la qual es pot consultar a https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.ca. Així, doncs, s'autoritza al públic en general a reproduir, distribuir i comunicar l'obra sempre que se'n reconegui l'autoria i l'entitat que la publica i no se'n faci un ús comercial ni cap obra derivada.