Giuliano Bonfante

Giuliano Bonfante ( born August 6, 1904 in Milan, † September 7, 2005 in Rome ) was an Italian linguist, specialist in Indo-European languages ​​and outstanding representative of Neolinguistik.

Giuliano was the son of the famous Italian legal historian Pietro Bonfante. In 1939 he was forced to be an antifascist to emigrate to the United States. In the 1940s and 1950s, he taught linguistics at Princeton University, and co-founded the products resulting from the Linguistic Circle of New York International Linguistic Association. In 1960 he was appointed Professor of Historical Linguistics at the University of Turin. In 1969 he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.

His daughter Larissa Bonfante is also Etruskologin. She worked with her father.

Publications (selection)

  • Della Intonazione sillabica indoeuropea (Rome, 1930)
  • I dialetti indoeuropei (Naples, 1931)
  • Latini e Germani in Italia (Brescia, 1965)
  • La Dottrina neolinguistica (Turin, 1970)
  • Studi Romeni (Rome, 1973)
  • The Etruscan language: an introduction ( New York, 1983, 22002 )
  • La patria proto degli Slavi ( Wrocław, 1984)
  • Grammatica latina: per le Scuole Medie Superiori (Milan, 1987)
  • The origin of the Romance languages: stages in the development of Latin (1999, with Larissa Bonfante )
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