Inés Fernández-Ordóñez, fourth academic woman of the Language
The philologist Inés Fernández-Ordóñez has become the fourth academic woman of the Language -together with Ana María Matute, Carmen Iglesias and Margarita Salas-, after being elected in the third round of voting. Ordóñez, who will occupy the capital "P" seat, has described her appointment as "magnificent news for all women."
Fernández-Ordóñez (Madrid, 1961) is a rare bird, as she herself admits, who has managed to combine Linguistics and Philology in her research, according to the tradition of the Spanish philological school, founded by Ramón Menéndez Pidal. Disciple of Diego Catalán, who died in April of this year, the new academic is a specialist in the current and historical dialectology of Spanish, and she is interested above all in grammatical variation.
Extracted from the newspaper El Pais.
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