Ana María Cano González (Villarín,

Somiedo Somiedo ( Asturian: Somiedu) is a municipality in the Autonomous Community of the Principality of Asturias, Spain. It is bordered on the north by Belmonte de Miranda, on the east by Teverga, on the west by Tineo and Cangas del Narcea, and on the ...

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, 12 May 1950) is a Spanish

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

. She was

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of the faculty of Philology of the

University of Oviedo The University of Oviedo ( es, Universidad de Oviedo, Asturian: ''Universidá d'Uviéu'') is a public university in Asturias (Spain). It is the only university in the region. It has three campus and research centres, located in Oviedo, Gijón ...

and chair of romance philology. She received her master's degree in primary education in 1967, after exerting this profession, a license in philosophy and letters from the University of Oviedo in 1972, and a doctorate at the same institution in 1975, ''cum laude'', with a thesis on "The speech of Somiedo". Since 2001, she has been president of the

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Selected works

* ''El habla de Somiedo'' (1975) * ''Vocabulario del bable de Somiedo'' (1982) * ''Averamientu a la hestoria de la llingua asturiana'' (1987) * ''Notas de Folklor Somedán'' (1989) * ''Estudios de diacronía asturiana'' (2008) * ''El habla de Somiedo (occidente de Asturias)'' (2009)

References

1950 births Living people Spanish philologists Women philologists People from Asturias University of Oviedo alumni University of Oviedo faculty {{Asturias-stub