Sorin Paliga
Born
Viorel-Sorin Paliga

(1956-06-21) June 21, 1956
Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania
NationalityRomanian
Occupation(s)Linguist and politician
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Bucharest
Main interestsEastern Romance languages, South Slavic languages, pre-Indo-European languages

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).[1][2]

Research interests

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.[3][4]

Education

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.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Danciu, Ioana. Controversatul Sorin Paliga, avizat ca ambasador al României la Praga - 9am.ro. 8 December 2005.
  2. ↑ CV Europass Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ CV Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro


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