BIO
Ignacio Bosque is a Professor of Spanish at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (since 1982) and a member of the Real Academia Española (since 1997). His research specialty is linguistics, covering such diverse aspects as theoretical grammar, syntax, semantics, morphology and pragmatics. Co-editor with Violeta Demonte of the 1999 Gramática descriptiva de la lengua española, he was also the academician tasked with coordinating Nueva gramática de la lengua española (2009), the first comprehensive grammar drawn up with the participation of all academies of the Spanish language. He has edited two combinatorial dictionaries (Redes and Práctico) and has published extensively on the relationship between lexis and grammar. His many distinctions include the Alfonso Reyes International Prize (from the Government of Mexico) and Spain’s Ramón Menéndez Pidal National Research Prize in the Humanities.
