En torno a un fantasma académico: chislama "muchacha"
Title in English | Notes about a non-existing word in the Academic dictionary: chislama "muchacha" |
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Authors | |
Year of publication | 2010 |
Type | Article in Proceedings |
Conference | Encuentro de Hispanistas (Brno, 9.-10. října 2009) |
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Citation | |
Field | Linguistics |
Keywords | Spanish-Gypsy; Spanish lexicography; lexicographical criticism |
Description | The paper deals with a polemic, non-existing Spanish Gypsy word chislama "girl". It prooves that it is a simple typing error which, unfortunatelly, entered into the Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary in the edition from 1936 and remains there till today. |