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Diccionario panhispánico de dudas

Like other publications of the Academy, such as the Diccionario de la lengua española de la Real Academia Española, the work follows a linguistically prescriptive philosophy as opposed to a descriptive one.


Aert H. Kuipers

Aert Hendrik Kuipers (born 1919 in the former village of Oostkapelle, Zeeland, Netherlands) is a linguistics professor who, from his pioneering field work among First Nations people of British Columbia during the 1950s, compiled the first detailed reference grammars of Squamish and Shuswap, two almost extinct Salishan languages now being revived.


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Meaning–text theory

The theory provides a large and elaborate basis for linguistic description and, due to its formal character, lends itself particularly well to computer applications, including machine translation, phraseology, and lexicography.