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Raimo Aulis Anttila

Raimo Aulis Anttila
BornApril 21, 1935
Lieto, Finland
DiedJanuary 27, 2023(2023-01-27) (aged 87)
Turku, Finland
Academic work
DisciplineComparative Linguistics
Institutions
Main interests

Raimo Aulis Anttila (April 21, 1935 – January 27, 2023)[1] was a Finnish linguist and professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Biography

Raimo Aulis Anttila was born in Finland in 1935. He was a professor of comparative linguistics at the University of Helsinki from 1971 to 1976. He was appointed a professor of Indo-European linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976. Anttila was also an authority on Finno-Ugric languages. Along with Marija Gimbutas, Edgar C. Polomé, and Roger Pearson, Anttila was a cofounder of the Journal of Indo-European Studies, and he was a member of its editorial committee in the 1970s. Anttila was elected a corresponding member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in 1995. Anttila retired from UCLA as a professor emeritus.

Selected works

  • 1992: "Field Theory of Meaning and Semantic Change." In: G. Kellermann and M. Morrissey, eds., Diachrony within Synchrony: Language History and Cognition, pp. 23–83. (= Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft 14). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
  • 1993: "Change and Metatheory at the Beginning of the 1990s: The Primacy of History." In: Charles Jones, ed., Historical Linguistics: Perspectives and Problems, pp. 43–73. London: Longman.
  • 1995: "Pattern Explanation and Etymology: Collateral Evidence and Estonian kolle 'hearth', and Related Words." Studi Finno-Ugrici 1: 29–48.

References

Citations

  1. ^ Michael Shapiro: Raimo Aulis Anttila (1935–2023) Language Lore by Michael Shapiro.

Sources

  • Kallio, Petri (7 November 2023). "Raimo Anttila 1935–2023". Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (68): 264–266. doi:10.33339/fuf.137247. ISSN 0355-1253.
  • "Raimo Anttila". University of California, Los Angeles. Retrieved September 8, 2020.


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