Georg Renatus Solta (18 April 1915 in
Vienna
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– 2 May 2005
TITUS-gallery page Solta
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Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...
n Indo-Europeanist
Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...
who specialized in Balkan linguistics.
Works
*1960, ''Die Stellung des Armenischen im Kreise der Indogermanischen Sprachen'', Vienna
*1965, ''Palatalisierung und Labialisierung'', IF 70, 276–315.
*1974, ''Zur Stellung der lateinischen Sprache'', .
*1980, ''Einführung in die Balkanlinguistik mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Substrats und des Balkanlateinischen'', .
*1997, with G. Deeters and V. Inglisian, ''Armenisch Und Kaukasische Sprachen'', .
See also
*Balkanization
Balkanization is the fragmentation of a larger region or state into smaller regions or states, which may be hostile or uncooperative with one another. It is usually caused by differences of ethnicity, culture, and religion and some other factor ...
* Paleo-Balkan languages
*Norbert Jokl
Norbert Jokl (February 25, 1877 – probably May 1942) was an Austrian Albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of Albanology.
Early life
Jokl was born in Bzenec (then Bisenz), Southern Moravia (now the Czech Republic ...
References
*Obituary and bibliography: Manfred Mayrhofer
Manfred Mayrhofer (26 September 1926 – 31 October 2011) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionar ...
, Almanach der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 155 (2005), 559-570.
External links
Solta's gallery at titus.uni-frankfurt.de
Linguists from Austria
Linguists of Indo-European languages
1915 births
2005 deaths
20th-century linguists
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