Sorin_Paliga

Sorin Paliga

Sorin Paliga

Romanian linguist and politician

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]

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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 [ru]'s Boreal languages [ru] theory, which links the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic language families.[4][5]

Life

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

Books

  • 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

  1. [1]
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-4586
  2. [2]
    Danciu, Ioana. Controversatul Sorin Paliga, avizat ca ambasador al României la Praga - 9am.ro. 8 December 2005.
  3. [3]
    CV Europass Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro
  4. [4]
    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.
  5. [5]
    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.
  6. [6]
    CV Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro


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