Alfredo Trombetti
Italian linguist
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Alfredo Trombetti | |
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Born | 16 January 1866 Bologna, Italy |
Died | 5 July 1929 Venice, Italy |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Linguist |
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Institutions | University of Bologna |
Main interests | Comparative linguistics |
Notable ideas | Monogenesis |
Alfredo Trombetti (16 January 1866 in Bologna – 5 July 1929 in Venice) was an Italian linguist active in the early 20th century.
Career overview
Trombetti was a professor at the University of Bologna. He was a member of the Italian Academy.
He is best known as an advocate of the doctrine of monogenesis, according to which all of the world's languages go back to a single common ancestral language. His arguments for monogenesis were first presented in his book L'unità d'origine del linguaggio, published in 1905.[1] This doctrine is still extremely controversial.
Proposed etymologies
A selection of Trombetti's proposed global etymologies:[1]
Meaning Root to hear; ear kul (kur) water ma; wad (wad, wed, wod), ud dog ku (ku-ari, ku-ri, etc.) hair tuk, suk behind, back kata, taka foot ganga; pat earth (clay, ash) tu dust twar, tur (< tu 'earth') woman na (nai) man (person) ku, etc. man (male) mar egg (testicle) umu (mu-n, mu-r, etc.)
Selected works
- 1902-1903. "Delle relazioni delle lingue caucasiche con le lingue camitosemitiche e con altri gruppi linguistichi. Lettera al professore H. Schuchardt." In Giornale della Società asiatica italiana, T. 15, pp. 177–201 and T. 16, pp. 145–175. Florence.
- 1902. Nessi genealogici fra le lingue del mondo antîco, 4 volumes, unpublished. Recipient of the Royal Prize of the Italian Academy in 1902.
- 1905. L'unità d'origine del linguaggio. Bologna: Luigi Beltrami.
- 1907. Come si fa la critica di un libro. Con nuovi contributi alla dottrina della monogenesi del linguaggio e alla glottologia generale comparata. Bologna: Luigi Beltrami.
- 1908. Saggi di glottologia generale comparata I. I pronomi personali. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe de scienze morali. Bologna.
- 1912. Manuale dell'arabo parlato a Tripoli. Grammatica, letture e vocabolario. Bologna: Luigi Beltrami.
- 1913. Saggi di glottologia generale comparata II. I numerali. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe de scienze morali. Bologna.
- 1920. Saggi di glottologia generale comparata III. Comparazioni lessicali. Accademia delle scienze dell'Istituto di Bologna. Classe de scienze morali. Bologna.
- 1922-1923. Elementi di glottologia, 2 volumes. Bologna: Zanichelli.
- 1925. Le origini della lingua basca. Bologna: Azzoguidi.
- 1927. "La lingua etrusca e le lingue preindoeuropee del Meditarreneo." In Studi etruschi, T. 1. Florence.
- 1928. La lingua etrusca. Florence: Rinascimento del libro.
- 1928. "Origine asiatica delle lingue e popolazioni americane." In Atti del 22 congresso internazionale degli americanisti, Roma, Settembre 1926, T. 1, pp. 169–246. Rome: Istituto Cristoforo Colombo.
- 1929. Il nostro dialetto bolognese. Bologna: Zanichelli.
See also
References
- ^ a b Trombetti, Alfredo. 1905. L'unità d'origine del linguaggio. Bologna: Luigi Beltrami.
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