In the decade and a half prior to the Spanish Civil War (1919–1936), the Academy managed to consolidate itself as an institution and set about its project of promoting the birth of a standard literary language, although it was unable to provide a precise, solid academic formulation for that aim. On the other hand, its work in that period contributed decisively to a better understanding of the language through Resurrección María de Azkue's studies ("Morfología Vasca", 1923–1934) and far reaching surveys among speakers of the language ("Erizkizundi Irukoitza", from 1922 onwards). The journal "Euskera" is a faithful witness to the work carried out at the time.