Francisco Javier Sanchez Martin

Francisco Javier Sanchez Martin is a Professor in the Department of Spanish Language and General Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Universidad de Murcia. His research focuses on historical lexicography and terminology of technical vocabulary in Spanish Renaissance texts, particularly Alonso de Herrera's agricultural treatises.

He earned his PhD from Universidad de Salamanca in 2009 with a dissertation on geometric terminology in Hispanic Renaissance technical works, supervised by Dr. María Jesús Mancho Duque.

Sanchez Martin specializes in lexicography, historical linguistics, and specialized language studies, with emphasis on agricultural and geometric terminology from the Renaissance period. His work examines Herrera's Libro de agricultura and its influence on Spanish lexicographic tradition including the Diccionario de autoridades, while also exploring viticulture terminology, Arabic loanwords, and digital applications in language teaching.

Recent publications (2023-2025) demonstrate sustained focus on Renaissance agricultural lexicon with growing interdisciplinary connections to viticulture, medical Spanish curriculum design, and digital humanities. His research bridges historical analysis with contemporary pedagogical practices through studies of grafting terminology, Arabic influences like 'abencenif', and geometric treatises.

He supervises graduate theses in Spanish linguistics through the HISTOLEX research group (History of Spanish Lexicon and Lexicography) and was previously active in Gleax (Grupo Lexicografico Alfonso X), contributing to collaborative projects on Spanish lexical evolution.