{"id":1690,"date":"2011-08-19T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elanguage.net\/blogs\/booknotices\/?p=1690"},"modified":"2011-08-19T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T06:48:35","slug":"the-architect-of-modern-catalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"The architect of Modern Catalan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-left: 2em; text-indent: -2em;\"><strong>The architect of Modern Catalan: <\/strong>Selected writings. Pompeu Fabra (1868\u20131948). Ed. by <strong>Joan Costa Carreras. <\/strong>Translated by Alan Yates. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xxxii, 240. ISBN <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/architect-of-modern-catalan-pompeu-fabra-1868-1948-selected-writings\/oclc\/472076630&amp;referer=brief_results\">9789027232649<\/a>. $143 (Hb).<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Reviewed by <strong>David Elton Gay<\/strong>, <em>Bloomington, IN<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though he is largely unknown outside of Catalan studies, Pompeu Fabra was the most important Catalan grammarian and language standardizer of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In <em>The architect of Modern Catalan<\/em>, Joan Costa Carreras and his collaborators have teamed up to introduce Fabra to the English-speaking world, and they have created a fine anthology with which to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The anthology opens with a series of appreciations of Fabra and his work by <strong>Joan Josep Moresco<\/strong>, <strong>Salvador Giner<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Mart\u00ed i Castells<\/strong>, and <strong>George Kremnitz<\/strong> that focus largely on biographical matters. These are followed by an introduction to the Catalan language by Carreras and <strong>Alan Yates<\/strong> that describes the historical and sociolinguistic situation of Catalan, as well as some of the important intellectual and literary movements in the language. The book concludes with a useful bibliography of materials on the Catalan language in English, Spanish, French, and Catalan and a list of useful websites on Catalan.<\/p>\n<p>Carreras then examines \u2018Pompeu Fabra: A life\u2019s work in applied linguistics\u2019 in a long and very detailed chapter that looks at virtually every aspect of Fabra\u2019s life and work as a Catalan scholar. This chapter offers useful bibliographical information about Fabra\u2019s writings in two places:\u00a0 an annotated bibliography of the various grammars Fabra wrote of Catalan, English, Spanish, and French (82\u201386), and a fuller bibliography of Fabra\u2019s writings and works about Fabra and Catalan more generally (95\u2013101).<\/p>\n<p>A brief chapter on the \u2018presentation of the edition\u2019 treats of editorial matters. In the anthology of Fabra\u2019s writings (113\u2013219), the editors have made a concerted effort to show the range of Fabra\u2019s writings, which include work on grammar, lexicography, spelling reform, standardization, and language purification (in the case of Catalan, this meant the removal of Castilianisms from the language).<\/p>\n<p>This is a very useful book about a too little known linguist and grammarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The architect of Modern Catalan: Selected writings. Pompeu Fabra (1868\u20131948). Ed. by Joan Costa Carreras. Translated by Alan Yates. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xxxii, 240. ISBN 9789027232649. $143 (Hb). Reviewed by David Elton Gay, Bloomington, IN Though he is largely unknown outside of Catalan studies, Pompeu Fabra was the most important Catalan grammarian and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1691,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journals.linguisticsociety.org\/booknotices\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}