Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/ 0000-0002-1262-4107

Ramón Zacarias Ponce de León received his doctorate in linguistics from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He is a Research Professor in the Juan M. Lope Blanch Center for Spanish Linguistics of the Institute for Philological Research at UNAM, and has been a Level II member of the National System of Researchers (SNI) since 2020. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters since 2004, and he currently teaches Lexicology and Semantics as well as Lexical Creativity. Since 2007, he has taught the Graduate Morphology Seminary in the Department of Spanish Linguistics. His specialties are morphology, semantics, and lexicology, and he has published peer-reviewed articles in Mexican and international journals on the morphology and semantics of derivative processes and diminutives, on the formation of compound words, and on the didactics of morphology.  He currently directs the Morfolex Project in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters (PIFFyL 01-023-2019), whose aim is to study Spanish morphology, word formation, and neological processes.  He is a member of the Mexican Applied Linguistics Association (AMLA), of which he was secretary until 2011.