Antonino Pestana and his Vocabulario palmero. An Edition of Max Steffen’s Copy

Abstract

The outstanding position in which the studies on the Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands are at present is the result of an uninterrupted line of research that begins to take root from the forties, when true linguists started to carry out the tracking and study of materials. Before that date, the situation was very different in terms of the quantity and quality of the data and the substance of the analysis, but that does not mean, in any way, that these early contributions have no value, a fact that can be verified in this paper, focused on one of these initial works, that of Antonino Pestana Rodríguez, and that contains the edition of his Vocabulario palmero, essential to have a full notion concerning the extent of this contribution.

Keywords

• canary spanish
• dialectology
• lexicology
• lexicography