Sorin Paliga | |
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Born | Viorel-Sorin Paliga June 21, 1956 |
Nationality | Romanian |
Occupation(s) | Linguist and politician |
Spouse | Rodica Paliga [1] |
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 |
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]
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.[4][5]
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.