Name Delfin Basset Role Lexicographer | Education Duquesne University | |
Books English in Action 6, A Dictionary of Prover, A Dictionary of Prover, Dictionary of Proverbs, A "spanish" and english di | ||
Delfin Carbonell Basset (born 1938) is a contemporary lexicographer in the United States and creator of the Unialphabet system.
Biography
Carbonell Basset was born in Spain in 1949. He was educated in the US, in Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa. and later joined the faculty of Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania. According to articles written about him in the Spanish newspaper La Razón, by José María Carrascal, he compiles dictionaries on his own, with no teams of experts. He is the creator of the Unialphabet system for bilingual dictionaries, where they are not divided into two languages. This was first used in his Spanish and English Dictionary of Idioms and in The new Dictionary of Current Sayings and Proverbs, Spanish and English, foreworded by John Simpson, of the University of Oxford.
For over twenty years, Carbonell Basset was the Director of the Marshall Institute of Languages in Madrid, Spain.