Sorin Paliga
Sorin Paliga (born Viorel-Sorin Paliga on June 21, 1956 in Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania) is a Romanian linguist and politician. He is a university professor at the University of Bucharest. As a politician, he was the former mayor of Sector 3 of Bucharest from June 1996 to June 2000, and was affiliated with the National Liberal Party (PNL).[2][3]
Sorin Paliga | |
|---|---|
| Born | Viorel-Sorin Paliga June 21, 1956 |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Occupation(s) | Linguist and politician |
| Spouse | Rodica Paliga [1] |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Bucharest |
| Main interests | Eastern Romance languages, South Slavic languages, pre-Indo-European languages |
Research interests edit
Paliga's main research interests include the influence of Dacian on Romanian, language contact, and Indo-European philology.
Paliga is a proponent of N. D. Andreev's Boreal languages theory, which links the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic language families.[4][5]
Life edit
Paliga studied Czech and English at the University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in 1998 by completing his dissertation on Roman and pre-Roman influences in South Slavic languages.[6] Since 2001 he teaches Czech and comparative grammar of the Slavic Languages at the University of Bucharest.
Married to Rodica Paliga in 1985, a teacher of Latin and French, they have 3 children.
Selected works by Sorin Paliga edit
Books edit
- Thracian and Pre-Thracian Studies (1999)
- Toponimia slavă și preslavă în sud- estul european. Introducere în studiul toponimiei slave arhaice (2003)
- Mitologia slavilor (2006)
- Introducere în studiul comparativ al limbilor slave (2012)
- Influențe romane și preromane în limbile slave de sud （2013）
- Morfologia limbii cehe, partea a II- a. Sfera nominală (2014)
- An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language (2024)
References edit
- ^ https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-4586
- ^ Danciu, Ioana. Controversatul Sorin Paliga, avizat ca ambasador al României la Praga - 9am.ro. 8 December 2005.
- ^ CV Europass Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro
- ^ Paliga, Sorin (2003). N. D. Andreev’s Proto-Boreal Theory and Its Implications in Understanding the Central-East and Southeast European Ethnogenesis: Slavic, Baltic and Thracian. Romanoslavica 38: 93–104. Papers and articles for the 13th International Congress of Slavicists, Ljubljana, August 15–21, 2003.
- ^ Paliga, Sorin (2007). Lexicon Proto-Borealicum et alia lexica etymologica minora. Evenimentul. doi:10.13140/2.1.4932.0009. ISBN 978-973-87920-3-6.
- ^ CV Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro
External links edit
- Academia.edu page
- Google Scholar