Marius Sala
Marius Sala (September 8, 1932, Vașcău, Romania - August 19, 2018, Bucharest)[1] was a Romanian linguist, member of the Romanian Academy. His activity gained international academic recognition in the study of Romance languages.[2][3]
Professional activity
[edit]Marius Sala received his PhD. in Philology in 1967 with the thesis "The Phonetics and Phonology of Judeo-Spanish" at University of Bucharest. He started his work in 1953 as a researcher at Romanian Academy's Institute of Linguistics "Iorgu Iordan-Al.Rosetti", an institution he presided from 1994 until 2017. Along with being a full member of Romanian Academy (corresponding member from 1994 until 2001), he was also its vice-president from 2006 until 2014.[4] Other institutions he was corresponding member: Real Academia Española (1978), Instituto Mexicano de Cultura (1981), Academia Nacional de Letras from Uruguay (1994), and Academia Peruana de la Lengua (2004).[5]
From 1990 he was the president of the Romanian Branch of Latin Union.
He contributed to 11 articles to the Encyclopaedia Britannica[6] and collaborated with Cambridge University Press in the study of Romance languages.[7]
Notable awards
[edit]- National Order of Faithful Service, Commander (2000), later Grand Officer (2009)
- Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (2004)
- Order of the Crown - Belgium (2008)[8]
Selected works
[edit]- Contributions to the historic phonetics of the Romanian language, Bucharest, 1970;
- Phonétique et phonologie du judéo-espagnol de Bucarest, Hague, 1971;
- El léxico indígena del español de América. Apreciaciones sobre su vitalidad (collaborator), Mexico, 1977;
- The encyclopedia of Romance languages, Bucharest, 1989;
- Languages in contact, Bucharest, 1997;
- From Latin to Romanian, Bucharest, 1998;
- May we introduce the Romanian Language to you? (collaborator), Bucharest, 2000;
- 101 cuvinte moștenite, împrumutate și create, Bucharest, 2010
- Dicționarul Limbii Române (editor-in-chief).
References
[edit]- ^ Academician Marius Sala Departed - Press Bureau of Romanian Academy
- ^ Parkinson, Stephen (2015). The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies 75. Brill. p. 370. ISSN 2222-4297.
- ^ Ştefan Colceriu, Emanuela Timotin (2012). De ce am devenit lingvist? Omagiu Academicianului Marius Sala [Why I became a linguist? Homage to Academician Marius Sala]. Editura Univers Enciclopedic Gold. ISBN 978-606-8358-57-4.
- ^ Academician Marius Sala Departed - Press Bureau of Romanian Academy
- ^ "Acad. Marius Sala: How I became a linguist " - TNB Journal
- ^ Britannica - Contributor Marius Sala
- ^ Andreose, Alvise; Renzi, Lorenzo (2013). Maiden, Martin; Smith, John Charles; Ledgeway, Adam (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages, Volume II: Contexts. Cambridge University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-521-80073-0.
- ^ Academia Română: Awards Received by Members of the Romanian Academy
