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Mario Alinei




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 Ã…rhammer, ''Aspects of Language: Studies in Honour of Mario Alinei''1986

  • ''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 .