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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, a journal of theoretical and applied semantics. Until recently, he was president of Atlas Linguarum Europae at UNESCO.

Some of his main linguistical contributions are related to idea of "paleolinguistics" widely rejected by mainsteam historical linguistics, such as the Paleolithic Continuity Theory.

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.

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