José Moreno de Alba

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José Moreno de Alba received his doctorate in Hispanic Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Professor Moreno de Alba served as Director of México’s National Library and holds a permanent scholar-in-resident position at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas (UNAM) and as professor in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is member of the Board of Directors of El Colegio de México, and has lectured in the former Soviet Union, Germany, and many countries of North and South America. Professor Moreno has written over one hundred articles on linguistic topics, most of them published in scientific journals. Among Professor Moreno’s works are: Valores de las formas verbales de México, El español en América, Minucias del lenguaje, Diferencias léxicas entre España y América, La pronunciación del español en México, La prefijación en el español mexicano, Nuevas minucias del lenguaje, El lenguaje de México. In 1998 Professor Moreno de Alba was conferred with the Gran Cruz of the Orden Civil Alfonso X el Sabio and became Emeritus Research Scholar at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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José Moreno de Alba