The linguist, professor, and researcher M. Teresa Espinal has just published the second online electronic version of the Diccionari de Sinònims de Frases Fetes (DSFF), which incorporates an in-depth revision and update of the printed work.
The Diccionari de Sinònims de Frases Fetes (DSFF) is a work that connects concepts with lexicalized expressions of diverse grammatical nature—what traditional grammar has generically referred to as idioms and fixed expressions. For each expression, the author provides various grammatical and linguistic information, as well as semantic relations with other lexicalized expressions.
The first edition of the printed work was published in 2004 by the Publications Service of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Publications of the Universitat de València, and the Publications of the Abadia de Montserrat, with the collaboration of the Department of Education and Culture of the Government of the Balearic Islands and the Department of the Presidency of the Government of Catalonia. In 2006, a second updated edition was published, which remains the latest printed version available and can also be consulted in open-access electronic format.
The printed edition of the DSFF included a CD-ROM that expanded the functionalities of the work. Over time, however, as its software requirements no longer matched the computer systems currently on the market, the author, with the collaboration of software developer Pere Orga, released the first online electronic version of the dictionary, launched in 2018.
This year, with the collaboration of Pere Orga and proofreader and translator Maria Coll Amengual, Espinal is making available the second online electronic version of the Diccionari de Sinònims de Frases Fetes. It incorporates a thorough revision and update of both the printed work and the first electronic version. Fifty-four percent of the initial entries have been revised and improved. This version also includes a significant expansion of concepts and lexicalized units: 5,800 conceptual entries, 19,600 lexicalized expressions, and 23,200 distinct records—making it the most comprehensive dictionary of fixed expressions in the Catalan language.
M. Teresa Espinal Farré is Professor of Linguistics at the UAB, PhD in Hispanic Philology (UAB, 1985), and ICREA Acadèmia research fellow (2010–14, 2016–20), with a distinguished career in research on the syntax-semantics interface. Among her most notable works, in addition to the Diccionari de Sinònims de Frases Fetes (2004 and 2006; 2nd electronic edition in 2025), are the edition of Semántica (Akal, 2014), the co-edition of The Oxford Handbook of Negation (Oxford University Press, 2020), and the authorship of numerous specialized articles on negation and negative concord, bare nominals, vocatives, among other topics, in international journals. She has received the Narcís Monturiol Medal for scientific merit (2020) and was elected member of the Academia Europaea (2023).
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