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Revision as of 12:13, 27 August 2006 by 62.162.202.217 (talk) (→External links)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Mario Alinei is Professor Emeritus at the University of Utrecht, where he taught from 1959 to 1987. He is founder and editor of Quaderni di semantica, an international journal of theoretical and applied semantics. Until recently, he was president of Atlas Linguarum Europae at UNESCO.
Some of his main linguistical contributions, which were instrumental in creating the Paleolithic Continuity Theory, regarded tendencies towards the conservation of languages, as opposed to the theories of "biological laws" of linguistic change and the method of lexical self-dating.
Works
- Lingua e dialetti: Struttura, storia e geografia (Studi linguistici e semiologici)
- Dal totemismo al cristianesimo popolare: Sviluppi semantici nei dialetti italiani ed europei (Filologia, linguistica, semiologia)
- Origini delle lingue d'Europa 1996 (Collected texts and studies)
- Etrusco: una forma arcaica di ungherese, 2003, Il Mulino,
References
- Nils, A. Hagen, Terho Itkonen, Pavle Ivic, Mieczyslaw Szymczak Århammer, Aspects of Language: Studies in Honour of Mario Alinei1986
- Aspects of Language: Studies in Honour of Mario Alinei, vol II: Theoretical and Applied Semantics. Papers Presented to Mario Alinei by his Friends... on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday.
External links
The following external links illustrate Alinei's general concept of continuity and the points of his criticism toward traditional historical linguistics.
- General concept of continuity (pdf file)
- Ideology and Historical Linguistics (pdf file)
- Conservation and change of languages (pdf file)
- The problem of dating in linguistics (pdf file)
- Towards an invasionless model of Indoeuropean origins: the continuity theory (pdf file)
- Alinei on the Renfrew's Neolithic Demic Diffusion model
- Quaderni di semantica
- Atlas Linguarum Europae at UNESCO