Gregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2020) was a Spanish
linguist
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Lingui ...
specialized in
structural semantics. Salvador was born in
Cúllar
Cúllar is a municipality located in the province of Granada, Spain. According to the 2005 census (INE), the city has a population of 4898 inhabitants. The linguist Gregorio Salvador Caja
Gregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2 ...
,
Granada
Granada (,, DIN: ; grc, Ἐλιβύργη, Elibýrgē; la, Illiberis or . ) is the capital city of the province of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. Granada is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains, at the c ...
, and studied at the
University of Granada and
Complutense University. He was one of the most important disciples of
Manuel Alvar. He wrote for the Spanish newspaper
ABC.
Salvador was elected to Seat q of the
Real Academia Española on 5 June 1986, he took up his seat on 15 February 1987.
Gregorio Salvador died in Madrid on 26 December 2020 at the age of 93.
Selected works
* ''El habla de Cúllar-Baza: contribución al estudio de la frontera del andaluz'' (1958)
* ''Unidades fonológicas vocálicas en el andaluz oriental'' (1977)
* ''Las otras vocales andaluzas'' (Spanish Review of Linguistics, 1989)
* ''Semántica y Lexicología del Español'' (Madrid, Paraninfo, 1985)
* ''Estudios dialectológicos'' (Madrid, Paraninfo, 1987)
* ''Lengua española y lenguas de España'' (Ariel, 1987)
* ''Casualidades'' (Espasa-Calpe, 1994).
* ''Política lingüística y sentido común'' (Istmo, 1992)
* ''Un mundo con libros'' (Espasa-Calpe, 1995)
* ''La lengua española, hoy'', in collaboration with Manuel Seco
Manuel Seco Reymundo (20 September 1928 – 16 December 2021) was a Spanish lexicographer, linguist and philologist. He worked at the department of lexicography of the Real Academia Española between 1962 and 1993. He became a member of the Acade ...
(Juan March Foundation, 1995)
* ''Historia de las letras'', with Juan Ramón Lodares (Espasa-Calpe, 1996)
* ''Granada, recuerdos y retornos'' (Universidad de Granada, 1996)
* ''El eje del compás'' (Planeta, 2002). Novel
* ''El destrozo educativo'' (Grupo Unisón, Madrid. 2004)
* ''Nocturno londinense y otros relatos'' (Espasa-Calpe, 2006).
* ''El fútbol y la vida'' (2007)
* ''Estar a la que salte'' (Espasa-Calpe, 2007)
References
1927 births
2020 deaths
Members of the Royal Spanish Academy
Linguists from Spain
Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Dialectologists
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