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In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Coromines and the second or maternal family name is Vigneaux; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Joan Coromines
Joan Coromines en 1980
Born
21 March 1905
Died
2 January 1997 (aged 91)
Awards
Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1982)
honorary doctor of the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1976)
Coromines studied at the University of Barcelona, and started working on linguistics from an early age. At the same time, he held strongly Catalanist convictions all his life. He was forced into exile after the Spanish Civil War, eventually holding a professorship at the University of Chicago, in 1948. He returned to Catalonia later, and spent the rest of his life working on his main works: the etymological dictionaries and the Onomasticon.
He refused several prizes from the Spanish government, in protest at the treatment of the Catalan language and culture in Spain.
In honor of Coromines, in April 2006 the University of Chicago inaugurated the Càtedra Joan Coromines d'Estudis Catalans, a teaching chair for visiting professors of Catalan language and literature.
Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983–1991). Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico. Madrid: Gredos. ISBN84-249-1362-0.
Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1984). Vol. I: A-Ca. ISBN84-249-1361-2.
Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1984). Vol. II: Ce-F. ISBN84-249-1363-9.
Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1984). Vol. III: G-Ma. ISBN84-249-1365-5.
Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1985). Vol. IV: Me-Re. ISBN84-249-0066-9.
Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1983). Vol. V: Ri-X. ISBN84-249-0879-1.
Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1991). Vol. VI: Y-Z, Índices. ISBN84-249-1456-2.
Coromines, Joan; Gulsoy, Joseph; Cahner, Max (1980–1991), Diccionari etimològic i complementari de la llengua catalana, Barcelona: Curial, ISBN978-84-725-6173-1