Biography

Francisco Adolfo Marcos-Marín (born June 20, 1946, Madrid) is a linguist, an emeritus professor of Linguistics and Translation at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Previously he was *professore ordinario per chiara fama* in the Università di Roma 'La Sapienza', catedrático de Lingüística General at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and catedrático de Historia del Español at the Universidad de Valladolid. He is a Corresponding Fellow of Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española and Academia Argentina de Letras, and an Honorary Citizen of San Antonio, Texas.

**Source**: [Francisco A. Marcos Marín](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_A._Marcos-Mar%C3%ADn) on Wikipedia.