Sorin Paliga

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]

Sorin Paliga
Born	Viorel-Sorin Paliga June 21, 1956 Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Occupation	Linguist and politician
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Academic work
Institutions	University of Bucharest
Main interests	Eastern Romance languages, South Slavic languages, pre-Indo-European languages

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 Borean 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, 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:10.13140/2.1.4932.0009Z. ISBN 978-973-87920-3-6.
5. CV Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro

External links

• Academia.edu page
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