Inés Fernández-Ordóñez

Inés Fernández-Ordóñez (born December 17, 1961 in Madrid ) is the first female philologist to receive a seat in the Real Academia Española (RAE, "Royal Spanish Academy [for Language]"). She was appointed to the RAE in 2011.

biography

Inés Fernández-Ordóñez Hernández comes from a family of politicians and engineers. She is the daughter of José Antonio Fernández-Ordóñez, engineer and president of the Patronato del Museo del Prado , who died in 2000. She is also the niece of the politician Francisco Fernández-Ordóñez and the economist Miguel Ángel Fernández-Ordóñez.

She studied at the University of Madrid and at other European universities (Bielefeld, París, Cambridge).

Inés Fernández-Ordóñez is now a professor at the University of Madrid .

Specialties

The philologist specializes in medieval texts. She is considered an authority on the work of the Spanish King Alfonso X. She is also an expert in dialectology .

research

Since 1990 she has been working on the project COSER (= Corpus Oral y Sonoro del Español Rural = Corpus of the rural language of Spain), a linguistic map of Spain in which she reproduces the peculiarities and nuances in the dialect of every Spanish village.

RAE

Ines Fernández Ordonez was nominated for the RAE in 2008, but was not officially able to take her place until 2011. She is the youngest member of the RAE to hold the seat with the letter "P". Each member is responsible for one letter.