The initial phase of the surveys of the <em>Linguistic atlas of the Iberian peninsula</em>

Abstract

This work studies the initial phase of the surveys of the Linguistic Atlas of the Iberian Peninsula (ALPI); the work pays attention to the selection of the interviewers, the exact dates in which the task began and, especially, to the figure of the first of the collaborators, Aurelio M. Espinosa junior. It also follows his first excursions through the lands of Extremadura.