Alfredo Trombetti was an Italian linguist active in the early 1900s.
He was born in Bologna on January 16, 1866 and died in Venice on July 5, 1929. Bologna (boloɲa from Latin Bononia, Bulåggna in Bolognese dialect is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the
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. In Linguistics, monogenesis refers to the doctrine that all spoken human languages are descended from a single ancestral language spoken many thousands of years ago in the His arguments for monogenesis were presented in his book L'Unità d'origine del linguaggio, published in 1905. This doctrine is still extremely controversial.
Works by Alfredo Trombetti
- 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.
- 1912. Manuale dell'arabo parlato a Tripoli. Grammatica, letture e vocabolario. Bologna: Luigi Beltrami.
- 1922-1923. Elementi di glottologia, 2 volumes. Bologna: Zanichelli.
- 1925. Le origini della lingua basca. Bologna: Azzoguidi.
- 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.
See also
Alfredo Trombetti Italian Wikipedia