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The name of letters, derived from Latin, are not exactly the same in the various Romance languages. The study of references to the name of letters made by grammarians and lexicographers reveals the continuity of forms going back to the origins of language and still remembered, although occasionally, at the beginning of the 20th century: a, be, ce, de, e, ef; ge, hac, i, jota, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, qu, er, es, te, u, ve, xeix, y grega, i tzeta. However, in the 19th century, Castilians gradually substituted these names, and consequently, the codification of Catalan by Pompeu Fabra and the Institut d'Estudis Catalans was carried out with disregard to its own grammatical tradition.

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By means of a choice of seventy words, this work shows the lexical richness and the degree of acceptance of the guidelines –defined in the Diccionari General de Llengua Catalana by Pompeu Fabra– regulating nine bilingual Valencian/Castilian and Castilian/Valencian vocabularies published between 1972 and 1993.

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This article describes the process by which the Nou Diccionari Normatiu de la Llengua Catalana (NDNLC) has been made; this dictionary brings up to date and regularizes Pompeu Fabra’s Diccionari General de la Llengua Catalana (DGLC), which implies, on the one hand, adding to the dictionary new words brought about by different social habits and by the progress of Science and technology, and, on the other hand, bringing the contents of the dictionary up to date. This project has been carried out in three different phases. The first consisted in creating a general Computer data base (BDOL) which contains, besides the DGLC, words belonging both to the common language and to specific fields; in this first phase a study of the DGLC was also carried out, with two aims: a) to analyse the text itself and in doing so select whatever Information might be considered obsolete today, and b) to find out the criteria which Fabra used to make the dictionary, which are implicit in the text. In the second phase the lexicographic criteria by which the dictionary was to be made were established, its entries (both words and phrases) were selected, the old articles were revised and new ones were created. Finally, in the third phase the data base specifically for the NDNLC was created; this contains all the Information of the Nou Diccionari Normatiu de la Llengua Catalana, organised into articles.

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In this article Casanova uses various archives –in particular that of Emili Beüt i Belenguer– to reconstruct the process of elaborating the general dictionary of Valencian. This dictionary was written during the Spanish civil war through the IEV, an organization in which Salvador played a decisive role. The author presents several dictionary entries and compares them with others from Pompeu Fabra's DGLC, and with other works.

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By studying step by step, from beginnig to end, Father Fullana's grammatical studies, Prof. Simbor offers the reader the possibility of following the ideological evolution of this outstanding Valencian grammarian during three main periods: A unitarian one (1902-1915), a secessionist one (1915-1932), and a final one (1932-1948), when, after being the first to accept and to sign the unitarian ortography of Castelló de la Plana, he seems to have closed the process by accepting P. Fabra's proposals.

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This article studies Sanchis Guarner's Gramàtica Valenciana, trying to assess its relevant contribution, referring not only to the author's ideology and established goal, but also to its historical context and to its Catalan as well as Valencian precedents, like Fabra on one side, and Fullana, Giner and Salvador, on the other.

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The purpose of this article is to make the inventory and analysis of the hispanisms incorporated in the dictionary of Pere Labernia which were later excluded of the standard Catalan codified by Pompeu Fabra. Considering that the Labernia dictionary is the most important of those made before the referred codification and that it was the dictionary of reference for the educated Catalan society of the XIX century, the analysis of these hispanisms allows us to understand the conception about the Catalan lexicon in that society and the revolutionary change that the codifying action of Pompeu Fabra represents.

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Abstract: This article offers a detailed critical comparison of the literary languages deployed by Josep Carner in two different Catalan versions of Molières’s Le Malade imaginaire. The first one, published in 1909, had been made in 1905 for a stage production by Adrià Gual; the second one was published in 1921 in Biblioteca Literària, a series of literary works in translation supervised by Carner himself. The main interest in comparing them lies in the fact that this is not a case of mere revision but a case of retranslation, and one which presents interesting cultural aspects. Not only had a stringent and thorough renewal of written Catalan taken place in the years between the two versions, led by Pompeu Fabra, but Carner had also changed his whole approach to the task of translation in respect of both its practice and its goals, in connection with the potential growth of literary language on the basis of this reform.Key words: 20th century literary Catalan, languages of translation, Josep Carner, Pompeu Fabra.