Lexical repertoires in A Luminous Guide for the British Cooperative Forces in Spain by Sotero de Goicoechea (1836)

Abstract

The objective of this work is to describe the content of the work A Luminous Guide for the British Cooperative Forces in Spain by Sotero de Goicoechea and, especially, to study the repertoires included in it: a bilingual English-Spanish thematic vocabulary and a trilingual English-Spanish-Basque vocabulary. The text, published in Bayonne in 1836, is a brief guide to the Basque province of Bizkaia written for the British auxiliary forces displaced to the Basque Country during the First Carlist War (1836-1839). Thus, after reviewing the historical context and biographical data of the author, we focus on studying the two mentioned vocabularies. Despite their brevity, they are considered relevant due to the unusual co-appearance of these three languages.

Keywords

• history of lexicography
• nomenclature
• basque country
• 19th century