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Notable Academics, Romanian linguist, Romanian Academy member and vice-president
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Marius Sala

Marius Sala (September 8, 1932, Vașcău, Romania - August 19, 2018, Bucharest) was a Romanian linguist, member of the Romanian Academy. His activity gained international academic recognition in the study of Romance languages.

Professional activity

Marius Sala received his PhD. in Philology in 1967 with the thesis "The Phonetics and Phonology of Judeo-Spanish" at University of Bucharest. He started his work in 1953 as a researcher at Romanian Academy's Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan-Al.Rosetti", an institution he presided from 1994 until 2017. Along with being a full member of Romanian Academy (corresponding member from 1994 until 2001), he was also its vice-president from 2006 until 2014. Other institutions he was corresponding member: Real Academia Española (1978), Instituto Mexicano de Cultura (1981), Academia Nacional de Letras from Uruguay (1994), and Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2004).

From 1990 he was the president of the Romanian Branch of Latin Union.

He contributed to 11 articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and collaborated with Cambridge University Press in the study of Romance languages.

Notable awards

Selected works

  • Contributions to the historic phonetics of the Romanian language, Bucharest, 1970;
  • Phonétique et phonologie du judéo-espagnol de Bucarest, Hague, 1971;
  • El léxico indígena del español de América. Apreciaciones sobre su vitalidad (collaborator), Mexico, 1977;
  • The encyclopedia of Romance languages, Bucharest, 1989;
  • Languages in contact, Bucharest, 1997;
  • From Latin to Romanian, Bucharest, 1998;
  • May we introduce the Romanian Language to you? (collaborator), Bucharest, 2000;
  • 101 cuvinte moștenite, împrumutate și create, Bucharest, 2010
  • Dicționarul Limbii Române (editor-in-chief).

References

  1. Academician Marius Sala Departed - Press Bureau of Romanian Academy
  2. Parkinson, Stephen (2015). The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 75. Brill. p. 370. ISSN 2222-4297.
  3. Ştefan Colceriu, Emanuela Timotin (2012). De ce am devenit lingvist? Omagiu Academicianului Marius Sala [Why I became a linguist? Homage to Academician Marius Sala]. Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold. ISBN 978-606-8358-57-4.
  4. Academician Marius Sala Departed - Press Bureau of Romanian Academy
  5. "Acad. Marius Sala: How I became a linguist " - TNB Journal
  6. Britannica - Contributor Marius Sala
  7. Andreose, Alvise; Renzi, Lorenzo (2013). Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles; Ledgeway, Adam (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, Volume II: Contexts. Cambridge University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-521-80073-0.
  8. Academia Română: Awards Received by Members of the Romanian Academy
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