What is it about?

Judges use the dictionary and Spanish grammar to support or refute a court ruling. The Diccionario del español de la Real Academia has normative value, so judges use it as a normative instrument.

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Why is it important?

This is important because court rulings can be made dependent on a dictionary that often fails to define words satisfactorily.

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This article gathers a linguistic corpus where we can find mentions of the sentences to the dictionary. It is the first to do so.

ANGEL ALONSO-CORTES
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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This page is a summary of: Corpus RLD, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, July 2022, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/resla.20017.dia.
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