Rufino José Cuervo
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Rufino José Cuervo Urisarri (
Biography
He was the youngest son of María Francisca Urisarri Tordecillas and Dr. Rufino Cuervo y Barreto, a politician, lawyer, journalist and vice president of the Republic between 1845 and 1851.
He studied
His most important work was Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana (Dictionary of Castilian language construction and rection). This work is updated on a regular basis by the
Cuervo was one of the first linguists who promoted the union of the Spanish language in its different variants. He was worried about the segregationist trend in spoken Spanish and thought that this phenomenon was similar to the events following the fall of the Roman Empire, after which Latin gradually began splitting into several independent Romance languages, such as Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.
In 1878 he was admitted as the Colombian representative to the
References
- http://www.universia.net.co/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=5752[permanent dead link]
- Rufino José Cuervo – MSN Encarta