Marcos Augusto Morinigo

Marcos Augusto Morínigo (* 1904 in Asunción , † 1987 in Córdoba (Argentina) ) was an Argentine Romance philologist , Hispanist and lexicographer.

life and work

Morínigo studied with Amado Alonso in Buenos Aires. Scholarships allowed him to continue studying in Paris and New York. He taught first in Paraná (Argentina), from 1939 at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán in San Miguel de Tucumán .

In 1946 he left Argentina and taught successively at the Universities of Cáracas , University of Florida in Gainesville , University of California at Berkeley and (as Associate Professor) University of Southern California in Los Angeles . From 1957 to 1960 he was professor and dean at the University of Buenos Aires , but then taught again in the United States, from 1960 until his retirement in 1970 in Urbana at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .

Works

• Hispanismos en el Guarani . Estudio sobre la penetración de la cultura española en la Guaraní, según se refleja en la lengua , Buenos Aires 1931, 1951
• Las voces guaranies del Diccionario academico , Buenos Aires 1935
• América en el teatro de Lope de Vega , Buenos Aires 1946 (dissertation)
• Programa de Filología Hispánica , Buenos Aires 1959 (collective publication)
• Diccionario manual de Americanismos , Buenos Aires 1966
  • Diccionario de Americanismos , Barcelona 1985
  • Diccionario del Español de América , Madrid 1993, 1996
  • Nuevo diccionario de americanismos e indigenismos , ed. by Marcos Alberto Morínigo Vázquez-Prego, Buenos Aires 1998
• (Ed. With Isaías Lerner) Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana , 2 vols., Madrid 1980–1983
• Raíz y destino del guaraní , ed. by Fernando B. Morínigo, Asunción 1989

literature

• Estudios de literatura española ofrecidos a Marcos A. Morínigo , Urbana, Illinois, 14-15 de mayo 1970, Madrid 1971 (with list of publications)
• Temas de literatura española. Homenaje a Marcos A. Morínigo , ed. by Melchora Romanos, in: Filología 26, 1993
• Soledad Martínez Zuccardi, La facultad de filosofía y letras y la consolidación de la literatura en Tucumán. Papel desplegado por Marcos A. Morínigo, in: Docentes, científicos, artistas e intelectuales en la creación de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (1910-1960) , ed. by María Celia Bravo, Tucumán 2011 ( http://www.archivo.unt.edu.ar/attachments/054_zucardi2.pdf )
• Armando Almada Roche, Escritores de la América nuestra , Asunción 2012 sv

Web links

• Literature by and about Marcos Augusto Morínigo in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)