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

(1956-06-21) June 21, 1956 (age 68)
NationalityRomanian
Occupation(s)Linguist and politician
SpouseRodica Paliga [1]
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Bucharest
Main interestsEastern Romance languages, South Slavic languages, pre-Indo-European languages

Research interests

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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

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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

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Books

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  • 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

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