Delfin Carbonell Basset
Encyclopedia
Delfin Carbonell Basset is a contemporary lexicographer in the United States
and creator of the Unialphabet
system.
in 1949. He was educated in the US, in Duquesne University
in Pittsburgh, Pa. and later joined the faculty of Franklin & Marshall College
in Pennsylvania
. According to articles written about him in the Spanish newspaper La Razón, by José María Carrascal, he compiles dictionaries on his own, with no teams of experts. He is the creator of the Unialphabet
system for bilingual dictionaries, where they are not divided into two languages. This was first used in his Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms and in The new Dictionary of Current Sayings and Proverbs, Spanish and English, foreworded by John Simpson, of the University of Oxford
.
For over twenty years, Carbonell Basset was the Director of the Marshall Institute of Languages in Madrid, Spain.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and creator of the Unialphabet
Unialphabet
The Unialphabet system of classification for bilingual wordbooks, created by the Spanish lexicographer Delfin Carbonell Basset, blends both languages into one single body of facts rather than employing the traditional two-part method...
system.
Biography
Carbonell Basset was born in SpainSpain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
in 1949. He was educated in the US, in Duquesne University
Duquesne University
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of...
in Pittsburgh, Pa. and later joined the faculty of Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College
Franklin & Marshall College is a four-year private co-educational residential national liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States....
in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
. According to articles written about him in the Spanish newspaper La Razón, by José María Carrascal, he compiles dictionaries on his own, with no teams of experts. He is the creator of the Unialphabet
Unialphabet
The Unialphabet system of classification for bilingual wordbooks, created by the Spanish lexicographer Delfin Carbonell Basset, blends both languages into one single body of facts rather than employing the traditional two-part method...
system for bilingual dictionaries, where they are not divided into two languages. This was first used in his Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms and in The new Dictionary of Current Sayings and Proverbs, Spanish and English, foreworded by John Simpson, of the University of Oxford
Oxford
The city of Oxford is the county town of Oxfordshire, England. The city, made prominent by its medieval university, has a population of just under 165,000, with 153,900 living within the district boundary. It lies about 50 miles north-west of London. The rivers Cherwell and Thames run through...
.
For over twenty years, Carbonell Basset was the Director of the Marshall Institute of Languages in Madrid, Spain.
Summarized Bibliography
- A Phraseological Dictionary, EnglishEnglish languageEnglish is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Spanish (Ediciones del Serbal, 1995) - Dictionary of Proverbs, English and Spanish, (Ediciones del Serbal, 1996 and Barron’s Educational Series, 1998, N.Y. Special Award for Bilingual Lexicography, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)
- A Spanish and English Dictionary of SlangSlangSlang is the use of informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speaker's language or dialect but are considered more acceptable when used socially. Slang is often to be found in areas of the lexicon that refer to things considered taboo...
And Unconventional Language, with a foreword by Camilo José CelaCamilo José CelaCamilo José Cela y Trulock, 1st Marquis of Iria Flavia was a Spanish novelist and short story writer. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Literature "for a rich and intensive prose, which with restrained compassion forms a challenging vision of man's vulnerability".-Biography:Cela published his...
(Ediciones del Serbal, 1997) - Gran diccionario de argot: El sohez, de autoridades del español cotidiano, popular,. coloquial... Prólogo de Luis María Anson, de la Real Academia Española. (Larousse, 2000; McGraw-Hill, Chicago, November, 2002.)
- Diccionario panhispánico de refranes de autoridades, with a foreword by Alonso Zamora Vicente, de la Real Academia Española, (Editorial Herder, November, 2002.)
- A Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms, Foreword by Edward Gates (Serbal, June, 2004).
- The New DictionaryDictionaryA dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...
of Current SayingSayingA saying is something that is said, notable in one respect or another, to be "a pithy expression of wisdom or truth."There are a number of specific types of saying:...
s and ProverbProverbA proverb is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim...
s, Spanish and English Foreword by John Simpson, Editor in Chief, OED (Serbal, 2005) - Diccionario de clichés (Foreword by José Jiménez Lozano, Premio Cervantes 2002, Ed. Del Serbal, 2006.)