Contrasting Approaches to Spanish Lexicography

SINCE THE FOUNDATION of the Real Academia Espafiola de la Lengua in the eighteenth century, the basic approach to lexicography and grammar in Spain has been marked by its excessive caution and dogmatic purism. The existence of an official body whose duties include those of debating the claims to acceptability of words and syntactical patterns in common or specialized use has meant that both the DRAE and the GRAE

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