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Federico Corriente

فيديريكو كورينتي

Notable figure 1940–2020 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, p. 36 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Federico Corriente (1940-2020)

Field: Lexicography and dialects

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of an Arabic-Spanish dictionary (1977)

Biography

Born in Granada, he taught at Madrid and Zaragoza. He compiled an Arabic-Spanish dictionary (Madrid 1977) and described Andalusi Arabic in A Grammatical Sketch of the Spanish Arabic Dialect Bundle (1977) and A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Leiden 1997).