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Romanian linguist and politician

Sorin Paliga

Born	Viorel-Sorin Paliga (1956-06-21) 21 June 1956 (age 68) Braniștea, Dâmbovița County, Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Occupation(s)	Linguist and politician
Spouse	Rodica Paliga

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 21 June 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).

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 [ru]'s Boreal languages [ru] theory, which links the Indo-European, Uralic, and Altaic language families.

Life

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. 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

Books

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

"ORCID".
Danciu, Ioana. Controversatul Sorin Paliga, avizat ca ambasador al României la Praga - 9am.ro. 8 December 2005.
CV Europass Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro
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.
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.
CV Viorel Sorin Paliga - unibuc.ro

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