Sorin Paliga

Romanian linguist and politician

Sorin Paliga

Born|

Viorel-Sorin Paliga

(1956-06-21) June 21, 1956 (age 68)

Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania

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]

## 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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