Mulleres na Lexicografía / Women in Lexicography

María Clara Henríquez Guarín

Spanish

1959 (Bogotá, Colombia)

María Clara Henríquez Guarín is a lexicographer with a long and distinguished career forged within the most representative institutions for the study of the Spanish language in Colombia. Her training began with a Bachelor's in Spanish-English at the Universidad Pedagógica de Colombia, which she complemented with a Master's in Linguistics from the Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Her connection to this institution deepened immediately, initiating a fruitful period as a teaching assistant for the Sociolinguistics Seminar and as a research assistant in the Dialectology Department, where she was part of the redaction team of the Diccionario de construcción y régimen de la lengua castellana (Dictionary of Construction and Syntax of the Castilian Language). Her excellence led her to a fellowship at the Centro de Investigación Lingüística de la Universidad de Salamanca (CILUS) between 1996 and 1997. With this experience, she rose to become the Director of the Lexicography Department at the Instituto Caro y Cuervo, a position from which she not only managed key projects but also taught the Lexicography Seminar. The Royal Spanish Academy appointed her as the reviewer of Colombianisms for the Dictionary of the Spanish Language.

· Henriquez, M. C. et al. (2018). Diccionario de colombianismos. Instituto Caro y Cuervo: Bogotá. · Henriquez, M.C. et al. (2006). Diccionario básico de la lengua de señas colombiana. Instituto nacional para sordos, INSOR: Bogotá. · Henríquez Guarín, M. C. (2005). Americanismos y colombianismos en el diccionario de la Real Academia Española: datos y observaciones. In Homenaje a José Joaquín Montes Giraldo: estudios de dialectología, lexicografía, lingüística general, etnolingüística e historia cultural, 306-332.  Instituto Caro y Cuervo: Bogota · Henríquez Guarín, M. C. (2001). A propósito del Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española. Newsletter of the Academia Colombiana, vol 52. n. 211-212, 209-220. Academia Colombiana: Bogota. https://www.academiacolombianadelalengua.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/BOLETIN-COMPLETO-271-272-NOV-1-6-1.pdf · Henríquez, M.C. (1999). Lenguaje, cultura y lexicografía. Litterae. Revista de la Asociación de exalumnos del Seminario Andrés Bello, 8 (1999), 119-128. · Henríquez, M. C. (1999). Diccionario de la lengua española, Real Academia Española (21.ª ed.) [CD ROM]. Newsletter of the Academia Colombiana, vol 50. n. 205-206, 103-108.

https://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/sites/default/files/files_public/2022-04/Diccionario-lengua-de-senas.pdf

Cosoy, Natalia. (2016, february 28). Cómo se escribe y qué contiene un diccionario de colombianismos. [Interview] BBC Mundo. Retrieved on October 23 2025 from: https://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2016/02/160128_colombia_como_se_escribe_diccionario_colombianismos_nc · Youtube channel of the Philology and Communication Faculty of the University of Antioquia (UdeA.) (2019, May 30). Presentación Diccionario de Colombianismos Instituto Caro y Cuervo. Retrieved on October 23 2025 from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUoA6Wq3-s

· Chaves, I, et al. (1998). Jefes del Departamento de Lexicografía. Newsletter of the Instituto Caro y Cuervo. vol 54. n.2. 468- 470. Instituto Caro y Cuervo: Bogota. Photo: (Thumbnail) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUoA6Wq3-s · Henríquez, M. C. & Mahecha Mahecha, V., & Mateus Ferro, G. E. (2016). Análisis de los mecanismos cognitivos del léxico disponible de cuerpo humano a través de grafos. Lingüística Y Literatura, vol 37. n. 69, 229–251. Universidad de Antioquia: Medellín. Recuperado o 17 de outubro de 2025 / Retrieved on October 17 2025: https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/lyl/article/view/26587

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