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Toward the end of the 19th Century, linguistic registers on the Patagonian languages were made by the Salesian congregation. This missionary practice fell into disuse later, due to the modification of the linguistic reality of the zone and the change of this Catholic Congregation's objectives. In the middle of the 20th Century, Molina conceived a project of resurgence of the missionary linguistic practices that implied the value of the Salesian contributions as well as the continuation of their registration practices. During this research, he recovered bibliographical sources and met with speakers of various Patagonian languages. This paper analyzes his work methodology, the native speakers' contributions and the selection of published material. It is focused on the comparison of Molina's records in order to elucidate the differences between the collected material and the published one. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Diccionario de música, técnico, histórico, bio-bibliográfico was published in Madrid, in 1899. It is the first dictionary of musical terminology written by a Spanish woman, the musicologist and pianist María Luisa Lacal de Bracho (1874-1962). Luisa Lacal's contribution to the history of music and specialized lexicography has not been studied to date, although it is an important link in the scarce tradition of dictionaries of musical terminology in Spanish begun in the mid-nineteenth century (Fargas and Soler 1852, Melcior 1859, Parada y Barreto 1868 and, especially, his predecessor Pedrell 1894, more technical) and the subsequent development of other specialized lexicographic products already in the twentieth century. Our interest is focused on offering information about the methodology and contents of this 600-page dictionary that includes not only musical technicalities but also encyclopedic information, historical digressions and very abundant and up-to-date news about institutions, works and authors both Spanish and foreign of all times, but especially contemporary. A second aim of this paper is to offer biographical data of Luisa Lacal and the production context of her dictionary; that is, to show the task of someone who can be considered the first known Spanish woman lexicographer, a pioneer in the field of specialized lexicography in Spanish. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The research reported in this paper explores Manuel Rodríguez-Navas's Diccionario general y técnico hispanoamericano (1918). It is an update of another dictionary previously published by this author: Diccionario completo de la lengua española (1905). The change in title has to do with the new entries in the dictionary, mainly scientific terms and American usage of words. The paper discusses the innovations announced in the foreword, especially the "inclusion of prefixes, infixes, suffixes, roots and endings as part of the general vocabulary of the Spanish language." According to Rodríguez-Navas (1918:4), these elements are necessary "to understand a chemical formula, translate a neologism or trace the history of a word." The analysis focuses on both the dictionary's macrostructure (and how it evolved out of the earlier version) and the microstructure of the new entries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Father Soloeta-Dima wrote his Curso primero del idioma basko en dialecto guipuzkuano (Buenos Aires, 1912) for his Basque language course at Euskal Echea of Llavallol. This paper analyzes the ideas of language in this school grammar, focusing on how they reflect some core concepts of the so-called 'Basque Renaissance': grammar logicism, lexical purism and political nationalism. These three concepts inform the thought of Sabino Arana Goiri, considered as the founding father of Basque nationalism. Arana had a noticeable influence on Soloeta-Dima's grammar, as shown by some of the tenets in its description of the Basque language - absence of prosodic features, result of some vowel clusters, deletion of genitive suffix, extension of synthetic verb forms -, by the radically purist ideas about the lexicon - no loans from Latin or romance languages, abundance of neologisms (most of whose sources have been identified) -, and by the nationalist perspective illustrated by some of the examples in the grammar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]