Alfredo Trombetti
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Alfredo Trombetti was an Italian linguist active in the early 20th century.
He was born in Bologna
on January 16, 1866 and died in Venice
on July 5, 1929.
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 language
s 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. This doctrine is still extremely controversial.
He was born in Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
on January 16, 1866 and died in Venice
Venice
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on July 5, 1929.
Trombetti was a professor at the University of Bologna
University of Bologna
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. He was a member of the Italian Academy
Accademia dei Lincei
The Accademia dei Lincei, , is an Italian science academy, located at the Palazzo Corsini on the Via della Lungara in Rome, Italy....
.
He is best known as an advocate of the doctrine of monogenesis, according to which all of the world's language
Language
Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication...
s 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. This doctrine is still extremely controversial.
A selection of works by Alfredo Trombetti
- 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. Firenze.
- 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 Nessi genealogici fra le lingue del mondo antîco, 4 volumes, unpublished.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. Firenze.
- 1928. La lingua etrusca. Firenze: 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. Roma: Istituto Cristopho Colombo.
- 1929. Il nostro dialetto bolognese. Bologna: Zanichelli.
See also
- Alfredo Trombetti Italian Wikipedia