José Ignacio Bosque Muñoz (Hellín, Albacete, 6 August 1951) is a Spanish linguist. He is a professor of Spanish Philology at the Complutense University of Madrid; a position he has held since 1982.Royal Spanish Academy: Ignacio Bosque He has been a visiting professor at the University of Utrecht, Ohio State University, the University of Leuven, Sophia University and the University of Minnesota.Academy of Europe: Ignacio Bosque
Career He attended the Autonomous University of Madrid, where he was a student of Fernando Lázaro Carreter. He also studied semantics and pragmatics at Berkeley from 1974-1975. He is an expert on the Spanish language, from the standpoints of both traditional and generative grammar, and has given special attention to the relationship between vocabulary and syntax.
In 1999, together with Violeta Demonte, he published the Gramática Descriptiva de la Lengua Española, in three volumes. It is the most detailed work on the syntax and morphology of the Spanish language published to date.Redalyc: Review by Guillermo Soto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile He was also the coordinator for the Nueva Gramática de la Lengua Española, published in 2009; the first such academic grammar since 1931.
Honors and awards Doctor Honoris Causa at the University of Alicante, the National University of Córdoba, the University of El Salvador and the American University of Nicaragua. Elected to Seat t of the Real Academia Española on 4 May 1995, took up his seat on 1 June 1997. Elected to the Academy of Europe (2011) Awarded the Alfonso Reyes International Prize (2012).
His work related to proverbs has been the subject of a scholarly study.María Auxiliadora BARRIOS RODRÍGUEZ. 2016. Ignacio Bosque: grammático autor de diccionanrios que nos hacen ser conscientes de todo lo que sabemos sobre palabras. Paremia 25:13-19.
Selected works Sobre la Negación, Catedra (1980) Problemas de Morfosintaxis, Universidad Complutense (1980) Las Categorías Gramaticales, Sintesis (1998) REDES: Diccionario Combinatorio del Español Contemporaneo (editor), Ediciones SM (2005)
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External links Dialnet: Works by Ignacio Bosque Text of his acceptance speech at the Royal Spanish Academy