Well-known lawyer, Fabio J. Guzmán is launching the Guzman Ariza Institute of Lexicography (IGALEX), a non-profit institution, dedicated to the research and publishing of Dominican and Spanish Caribbean dictionaries. The foundation will compile, write and edit the dictionaries. Guzmán also presides the Fabio J. Guzman Foundation that is a local expert on the correct use of the Spanish language in the Dominican Republic.
Igalex will collaborate to prepare Spanish dictionaries published by the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE). It will also cooperate with the Dominican Academy of the Language (ADL) in the academic training in lexicography and the dissemination of the use and knowledge of the dictionaries.
Lexicographer María José Rincón, a member of the ADL, will lead the team that includes Roberto Guzmán Silverio, Rita Evelin Díaz Blanco and Ruth J. Ruiz Pérez.
As a first task, the Guzmán Ariza Institute is preparing a new edition of the Dictionary of Dominican Spanish, published by the ADL in 2013. Online access will be free to the dictionary.
The Guzmán Ariza Foundation is financing the initiative. It will complement the Fundéu Guzmán Ariza (www.fundeu.do) whose main objective is the correct use of the Spanish language by Dominican media.
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3 November 2020