Sorin Paliga (born Viorel-Sorin Paliga on June 21, 1956 in Braniștea,

Dâmbovița County Dâmbovița County (also spelt ''Dîmbovița'', ) is a county ( județ) of Romania, in Muntenia, with the capital city at Târgoviște, the most important economic, political, administrative and cultural center of the county. It has an area o ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

) is a Romanian linguist and politician. He is a university professor at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

. As a politician, he was the former mayor of Sector 3 of

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

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 Romanian may refer to: *anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Romania **Romanians, an ethnic group **Romanian language, a Romance language *** Romanian dialects, variants of the Romanian language ** Romanian cuisine, tradition ...

, language contact, and Indo-European philology. Paliga is a proponent of 's theory, which links the

Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ...

Uralic The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian (w ...

, and

Altaic Altaic (; also called Transeurasian) is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. Speakers of these languages are ...

language families.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.

Education

Paliga studied Czech and English at the

. He received his doctorate in 1998 by completing his dissertation on Roman and pre-Roman influences in South Slavic languages.CV Viorel Sorin Paliga
- unibuc.ro

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Living people 1956 births People from Dâmbovița County Linguists from Romania University of Bucharest faculty Romanian philologists National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians University of Bucharest alumni Mayors of the sectors of Bucharest Long-range comparative linguists {{Romania-linguist-stub