Gregorio Salvador Caja

Gregorio Salvador Caja (11 July 1927 – 26 December 2020) was a Spanish linguist specialized in structural semantics. Salvador was born in Cúllar, Granada, and studied at the University of Granada and Complutense University. He was one of the most important disciples of Manuel Alvar. He wrote for the Spanish newspaper ABC.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Salvador and the second or maternal family name is Caja.
Gregorio Salvador Caja
Salvador in Paris, April 1968.
Born(1927-07-11)11 July 1927
Cúllar (Granada), Spain
Died26 December 2020(2020-12-26) (aged 93)
Madrid, Spain
EducationPh.D. Romance Philology
Occupation(s)Linguist, author
Seat q of the Real Academia Española
In office
15 February 1987[lower-alpha 1] – 26 December 2020
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byAsunción Gómez Pérez

Salvador was elected to Seat q of the Real Academia Española on 5 June 1986, he took up his seat on 15 February 1987.[1]

Gregorio Salvador died in Madrid on 26 December 2020 at the age of 93.[1][2]

Selected works
  • El habla de Cúllar-Baza: contribución al estudio de la frontera del andaluz (1958)
  • Unidades fonológicas vocálicas en el andaluz oriental (1977)
  • Las otras vocales andaluzas (Spanish Review of Linguistics, 1989)
  • Semántica y Lexicología del Español (Madrid, Paraninfo, 1985)
  • Estudios dialectológicos (Madrid, Paraninfo, 1987)
  • Lengua española y lenguas de España (Ariel, 1987)
  • Casualidades (Espasa-Calpe, 1994).
  • Política lingüística y sentido común (Istmo, 1992)
  • Un mundo con libros (Espasa-Calpe, 1995)
  • La lengua española, hoy, in collaboration with Manuel Seco (Juan March Foundation, 1995)
  • Historia de las letras, with Juan Ramón Lodares (Espasa-Calpe, 1996)
  • Granada, recuerdos y retornos (Universidad de Granada, 1996)
  • El eje del compás (Planeta, 2002). Novel
  • El destrozo educativo (Grupo Unisón, Madrid. 2004)
  • Nocturno londinense y otros relatos (Espasa-Calpe, 2006).
  • El fútbol y la vida (2007)
  • Estar a la que salte (Espasa-Calpe, 2007)

Notes
  1. Elected on 5 June 1986

References
  1. "Gregorio Salvador Caja". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 September 2021.
  2. Gregorio Salvador, el académico veterano (in Spanish)
Preceded by:
(None)		 q seat of the Spanish Royal Academy
15 February 1987 – 26 December 2020		 Succeeded by:
TBD
Preceded by:
Ángel Martín Municio		 Vicedirector of the Spanish Royal Academy
1999 - 2007		 Succeeded by:
José Antonio Pascual


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