The ''Diccionario Panhispánico de dudas'' (''DPD''; English: ''Pan-Hispanic Dictionary of Doubts'') is an elaborate work undertaken by the
Royal Spanish Academy
The Royal Spanish Academy (, ; ) is Spain's official royal institution with a mission to ensure the stability of the Spanish language. It is based in Madrid, Spain, and is affiliated with national language academies in 22 other Hispanophon ...
and the
Association of Academies of the Spanish Language with the goal of resolving questions related to the proper use of the
Spanish language
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. Like other publications of the academy, such as the
Diccionario de la lengua española, the work follows a
linguistically prescriptive philosophy as opposed to a
descriptive
In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community. François & Ponsonnet (2013).
All aca ...
one. The first edition was published in 2005 and is now being revised to more properly align with principles set forth by the academy's other publications.
The project was begun in response to the 50,000 questions received yearly by the constituent members of the Association of Spanish Language Academies.
It is composed of:
* The
dictionary
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itself,
* A set of five
appendices covering
conjugation of verbs,
abbreviation
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s, symbols that can be ordered alphabetically, other symbols, and
demonym
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s,
* A
glossary
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of
linguistic terminology,
* And a list of
works cited.
References
External links
''Diccionario panhispánico de dudas''(1st edition, October 2005) at the RAE web site.
Spanish dictionaries
2005 non-fiction books
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