Gregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2020) was a Spanish
linguist
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specialized in
structural semantics
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. Salvador was born in
Cúllar,
Granada
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, and studied at the
University of Granada
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and
Complutense University
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. He was one of the most important disciples of
Manuel Alvar. He wrote for the Spanish newspaper
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.
Salvador was elected to Seat q of the
Real Academia Española
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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 (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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