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Fllu L t· A . d c .bb c t INTERNATIONAL a mer1can an ar1 ean en er UNIVERSITY School of International and Public Affairs College of Arts and Sciences

The Cuban Research Institute and Santillana USA Cordially invite you to the book presentation

Diccionario de americanismos by Humberto Lopez Morales, Ph.D. With Carlos Alberto Montaner, Moderator

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:00 pm FlU Modesto Maidique Campus MARC International Pavilion

Dr. Humberto Lopez Morales is presently Secretary General of the Association of Spanish Language Academies at the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language in Madrid, Spain. He is Honorary President of the Latin American Philology and Linguistic Association and Pres-ident of the Hispanic Caribbean Linguistic Society. Dr. Lopez Morales is Emeritus Professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, where he founded the Institute de Linguistica. He has been a visiting professor in numerous post- secondary institutions, including the universities of Groningen, Lovaina, Bergen, Turku (Finland), Tokyo, Mexico, Alcala de Henares, Sevilla, Salamanca and twenty-seven others. Dr. Lopez Morales has received honorari doctorates from 14 prestigious universities, such as Salamanca, Valladolid, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Lleida, Sevilla, UNED (Madrid), Chile, Costa Rica, San Marcos (Peru), Tucuman (Argentina), and the autonomous universities of Nicaragua and Santo Domingo. His research on linguistics, soci-olinguistics, lexicography and also Spanish peninsular literature has led to 54 books and more than 240 scholarly articles including El espana/ del Caribe (1992), SociolingOfstica (1989, 1993, 2004), Los cubanos de Miami: lengua y sociedad (2003), and the most acclaimed La aventura del espana/ en America (1998, 2005) and La globalizaci6n del lexica hispanico (2006). Recently, Dr. Lopez Morales has served as the coordinator for La Enciclopedia del espana/ en los Estados Unidos (2008) and Diccionario de Americanismos (201 0), published by Editorial Santillana.

Carlos Alberto Montaner is one of the most influential and widely-read columnists in the Spanish-language media, syndicated in dozens of publications in Latin America, Spain and the United States, and the author of more than 20 books.

Presentation will be in Spanish Book signing to follow book presentation Event is free and open to the public For additional information and to RSVP call (305) 348 -1991 Parking available in the Blue and Gold garages

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