Georg Renatus Solta [SEP] place of birth
Georg Renatus Solta
Georg Renatus Solta (18 April 1915 in Vienna – 2 May 2005) was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist 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", .
language. Antoine Meillet (1925, 1927) further investigated morphological and phonological agreement, postulating that the parent languages of Greek and Armenian were dialects in immediate geographical proximity in the Proto-Indo-European period. Meillet's hypothesis became popular in the wake of his book "Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine" (1936). Georg Renatus Solta (1960) does not go as far as postulating a Proto-Graeco-Armenian stage, but he concludes that considering both the lexicon and morphology, Greek is clearly the